Help with Video Broadcast Delay?


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chickenwing71x

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This might not be the best place to ask, but I might as well give it a shot. I posted it on a couple more technical forums, but might as well copy/paste here as well.

My church runs a service in one room, and we broadcast it live into the other room where we show it through a projector. We run two dv cameras (720x480i 4:3 dv) and a computer (ppt slides) into a mixer, then run the line from the mixer into the other room for projection. This works fine, but it is incredibly difficult for us to time the two room's services together (one is usually running too slow or too fast), so if we could have a 10-20 minute broadcast delay, sort of like a dvr, that would be fantastic.

Can this be done with a computer, by capturing the dv line from the mixer directly to disk and then beginning playback of the recorded content on the projector with, say, a 15 minute delay? What if I use a conventional capture card and capture it as S-Video to mpeg2? We're on a budget, so we can't afford investing thousands of dollars into it, so a cheap solution would be great.

Any ideas anyone?
 
Well, i tried a few things with various degrees of success. I could capture in final cut pro, but the way files are packaged they can't be played back as they are written. I was able to get this to work in iMovie (is that what it's called?), by starting the capture, then opening the project package, and playing the partial file with vlc, but I can't get sound. Quicktime doesn't support partial files (it requires an index).

I tried to get mplayer going, but I am completely new to apple computers. The computer is a 2.66ghz intel quad-core running osx, so it's definitely capable.

Can someone link me to a decent mplayer package for osx? I can do command line if there's decent documentation, but to make it accessible to other people a gui would be great. Yes, I used google. But being new to apple, I can't get it to run. I don't know if I need any special arguments for a dv file, or something like that. Any mplayer or osx experts here?
 
The only options I can see available to you are a hardware solution: Video Delay Card

or a software solution: VLC (I don't even know if it would work but it can stream and receive video)

I doubt that that will help any but it is really the only things that I can come up with.

As for a copy of MPlayer for OSX: Mplayer OSX
 
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