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Mr_Dave
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October 13, 2009
Question

Overlay video in video for basketball event

  • October 13, 2009
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We'll be streaming a live basketball event next month and we always get asked about showing the game clock with the video.

We have two cameras one can capture the game and the other capture the game clock. Is there a way to overlay the game clock video

on top of the game video?

Has anyone done any similar sporting events that can offer any suggestions and/or best practices?

This will be our first live Flash Streaming event, we've used Windows Media in the past and just switched to Flash Interactive Media Server 3.5

Thanks,

Dave

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    Anonymous
    October 14, 2009

    We use BoinxTv for our football games that we stream live. It works great. You can definitely have multiple cameras going in.

    http://boinx.com/boinxtv/

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    Anonymous
    October 14, 2009

    The boinx software looks pretty cool. Too bad it's Mac only.

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    Anonymous
    October 14, 2009

    I find the most efficient way is to handle the overlay before publishing, so the end result is a single stream being pushed up to FMS.

    If you don't want to throw a bunch of money at a hardware video processor, have a look at WebCam Max (http://webcammax.com/) or Wirecast (http://www.telestream.net/wire-cast/overview.htm)

    If you have to do it with two webcams pushing separate streams, you'll need to develop your player to subscribe to each stream separately, and do the overlay on the client side. FMS can't do any sort of server side compositing.

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