Hi Bill,
I am a technician for O'Maine Studios in Portland, Maine. We are a video production facility in the process of starting a streaming service called StreamState (URL: streamstate.tv), which consists of an automated playout channel and a pay per view library, both containing programming featuring aspects of our state - tourism, food, live events, locally produced productions, etc.
What brought me to this forum topic (CASTTOR) was our search for a playout solution that can handle live webcam RTMP feeds - scenic vistas from around the state, which is one of the unique attributes of our channel.
We started with trying out some of the expensive playout options, none of which seemed to handle a sequence of looping live webcam inputs without shortly crashing. The clear winner for pulling this off turned out to be OBS, using the sequencer in Advanced Scene Switcher. It will run 12 consecutive inputs (and hopefully more) in a loop for well over 24 hours (with dissolves!) without crashing. But OBS is a switcher, not an easy to program playout solution. So I ended up on this OBS forum thread, reading with great interest your development of CASTTOR.
I really like how CASTTOR can handle blocks of prerecorded clips and programs, which can easily be moved to different time slots - a rmajor time saver it seems. This could also be great if it can handle a sequence of live webcams as well. I'm hoping that since our live webcam sequences work so well in OBS, they would carry this capability over to CASTTOR.
It was fun to see that you have a beta tester for Saco Valley. I worked at Maine Video Systems (for 40 years - now closed), and they were one of our customers.
A few weeks ago we produced a live event described in this article:
https://www.penbaypilot.com/article...-movies-tv-live-video-everything-maine/254843
Since this event was at a remote area without internet, we used a StarLink antenna, which worked great, getting our signal to our CDN. We had viewers from as far away as Oregon and Hawaii.
We are interested in the free trial, and becoming a beta tester and user.
My contact info:
Eric Jurgenson
O'Maine Studios
omainestudios.com
https://https://streamstate.tv
ericj@gwi.net
(207) 232-8043
I am a technician for O'Maine Studios in Portland, Maine. We are a video production facility in the process of starting a streaming service called StreamState (URL: streamstate.tv), which consists of an automated playout channel and a pay per view library, both containing programming featuring aspects of our state - tourism, food, live events, locally produced productions, etc.
What brought me to this forum topic (CASTTOR) was our search for a playout solution that can handle live webcam RTMP feeds - scenic vistas from around the state, which is one of the unique attributes of our channel.
We started with trying out some of the expensive playout options, none of which seemed to handle a sequence of looping live webcam inputs without shortly crashing. The clear winner for pulling this off turned out to be OBS, using the sequencer in Advanced Scene Switcher. It will run 12 consecutive inputs (and hopefully more) in a loop for well over 24 hours (with dissolves!) without crashing. But OBS is a switcher, not an easy to program playout solution. So I ended up on this OBS forum thread, reading with great interest your development of CASTTOR.
I really like how CASTTOR can handle blocks of prerecorded clips and programs, which can easily be moved to different time slots - a rmajor time saver it seems. This could also be great if it can handle a sequence of live webcams as well. I'm hoping that since our live webcam sequences work so well in OBS, they would carry this capability over to CASTTOR.
It was fun to see that you have a beta tester for Saco Valley. I worked at Maine Video Systems (for 40 years - now closed), and they were one of our customers.
A few weeks ago we produced a live event described in this article:
https://www.penbaypilot.com/article...-movies-tv-live-video-everything-maine/254843
Since this event was at a remote area without internet, we used a StarLink antenna, which worked great, getting our signal to our CDN. We had viewers from as far away as Oregon and Hawaii.
We are interested in the free trial, and becoming a beta tester and user.
My contact info:
Eric Jurgenson
O'Maine Studios
O'Maine Studios. | Portland, Maine.
omainestudios.com
ericj@gwi.net
(207) 232-8043
