NEWBIE ALERT! NEWBIE ALERT! Please be patient with me!
I just stumbled across this website and think I may have found my solution, but I am hoping that someone can give me some advice.
I represent a university who is curious about streaming live video of sporting events and studio productions. We want to be able to create our own medium without having to rely on TV networks to pick up our football, basketball, and baseball games. I am at a loss as to how we can do this. Here is what I WANT to be able to do.
I want to be able to hook 3-4 cameras to a single computer (How can I do this). Rather than having a traditional switchboard, I would like to have a switchboard software program (CAN'T FIND ONE ANYWHERE) that allows me to view each camera, and be able to choose which camera to take live. Does that kind of software exist? Plus I want to be able to stream this live.
And get this....I want to be able to do all of this CHEAP! : )
Can I use VideoLan to Stream this video? Should I setup my own server? What would that cost? Would we have to pay horendous bandwidth bills?
Is this stuff even possible?
I really appreciate any direction anyone can provide me.
Regards,
Jonathan