[streaming] Venus 2004 : which architecture ?

[Francois Meyer]

Hello,

In june 2004, planet Venus will be for a  few  hours
just between earth and sun. From the earth  we  will
see the planet slowly crossing the sun's disk.  This
is a rather rare  event  (2  occurrences  every  128
years).

At this occasion I plan to setup a live  webcast  of
this  event,  using  a   telescope   here   at   the
observatory coupled with a webcam, and optionnally a
digital camcorder to show the scope  itself,  people
hanging around and some interviews before and during
the event or in case of bad weather.

I am trying to decide the best  architecture  to  do
that using vlc.

I was heading to a solution like this :

 a laptop connected to the scope webcam streaming in
 multicast to a few (2-4) machines relaying  out  to
 the internet.

Could experts tell me what  they  think  about  that
solution and  some  technical  clues  about  how  to
realise that ?

The webcam has been tested with vlc, works fine.

I did not test the camcorder yet, but I  think  this
will not be a problem with a iee1394 interface.
Thank you in advance,

Regards.

-- Francois Meyer   (alias eul'dulle, ex ingesys ecp :-))
Tel : (+33) 3 81 66 69 27   Fax : 3 81 66 69 44 
Observatoire de Besancon - BP1615 - 25010 Besancon cedex - FRANCE
**** Université de Franche-Comté ****** CNRS UMR 6091 *****

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