live stream

[John149]

Hi

I would liek some advice on live streaming. I have previously streamed two sony camcorders onto a single laptop via dv cables into custom software for video tagging purposes (the software uses leadtools). This was possible because previously most laptops had a dv port and a pc card slot so another dv port could be added, and camcorders usually had dv cable functionality. Now that both camcorders and and laptops are moving away from DV i have 2 questions:

1. what is the best practice for live streaming using a single camcorder?

2. is it possible to do it wth 2 camcorders? i have seen that it is potentially possible using an HDMI input card, but most laptops would only have one slot for this, limitting the method to one camcorder.

thanks

John

[brrobin19]

Hi John,

              You do not say what is your current computer that you have at the moment that you are

               trying to put 2 signals from separate dual camcorders into your software.If you have a modern

               Side entry PC express card input, you can try a dual firewire express card to feed 2 signals in

               as long as your memory and computer processor is fast enough to handle the recording load.

                                                                                                      Best regards Brian