Live race feeds through rFactor
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Live race feeds through rFactor
Hey all i was just wondering if there was a way to boardcast the race on the net without having to use a web cam. i have a web cam and have showed a race live before but the cam was getting in my view of the screen. if anyone has any ideas or knows if this can be done could you reply.
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Re: Live race feeds through rFactor
We looked at this about a year ago for a NZ v Oz race, using a webcam pointed at the small right hand side live screen in the race, and using the mouse to select the different cars in the race. We chose that way rather than have the rFactor machine running the game full screen. But with practise I was able to get some coverage together that would look similar to live tv coverage, including hot cutting to in car cams, etc.
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Ended up using a laptop for the web cam to do the encoding to reduce the load on the rFactor pc, but the upload speed was just too slow to make it viable. Streaming media on a server and your web connection uses a bit of resources, esp if you're expecting quite a few viewers.
Gave up in the end as it didn't live to expectations / what was really wanted. There are web sites out there that allow you to host streaming video (sorry can't remember any names atm) but expect a heavy hit on your bandwidth useage.
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Ended up using a laptop for the web cam to do the encoding to reduce the load on the rFactor pc, but the upload speed was just too slow to make it viable. Streaming media on a server and your web connection uses a bit of resources, esp if you're expecting quite a few viewers.
Gave up in the end as it didn't live to expectations / what was really wanted. There are web sites out there that allow you to host streaming video (sorry can't remember any names atm) but expect a heavy hit on your bandwidth useage.
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Re: Live race feeds through rFactor
Prom, for special events I can arrange a re-broadcasting server.
So you only upload to 1 viewer essentially, being the server. Other public viewers connect to the server and use its bandwidth instead.
So you only upload to 1 viewer essentially, being the server. Other public viewers connect to the server and use its bandwidth instead.
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Re: Live race feeds through rFactor
Yup, apologies I should've added to my lengthy post that Inspire had very kindly offered to cover the re-broadcasting of the event.Riven wrote:Prom, for special events I can arrange a re-broadcasting server.
So you only upload to 1 viewer essentially, being the server. Other public viewers connect to the server and use its bandwidth instead.
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