I am currently over-the-moon. A hare brained idea of mine works! A process that uses nearly $10,000 worth of gear can be accomplished with an under $250 purchase from China.
Ecstatic is what I am!
Let me set the stage. I broadcast daily to Nebraska, always recorded. However, there will be times I need to be live.
Live video over-the-Internet demands expensive hardware. It’s a real problem. And you need compatible hardware on both ends.
One night while paging through AliExpress (I watch it as Helaine watches QVC) I came across a weirdly described ad. Poorly translated from Chinese, it was nearly in English. The item was an IPTV video encoder.
I recognized some of the acronyms used in the ad as streaming terms. I couldn’t be sure how they were being used here. The ad had no context.
There was a picture. It was the proverbial black box around the size of a VHS tape. There was no brand name, but there were HDMI and Ethernet ports. That meant, I hoped, video in/packets out. Again, details were sparse.
It came today. I followed its journey through China to Japan to America.
I hooked it up.
It worked.
Holy crap!!! It worked. It did exactly what I hoped it would.
I asked someone on Facebook to check. It worked for him too.
My friend Larry Fitzgerald gave it a try from Burbank on a 5K screen.
My TriCaster can hook to it directly. No new hardware needed. That’s crazy!
More tests tomorrow, but this is currently too good to be true… but true!
Would that lil black box have any more popular use than yours?
From the actual manufacturer (I think): OPR-NH100 1-Channel H.264 HDMI Encoder – Which is a HD audio & video encoding device with powerful functionality. It support H.264 encoding,dual-Streaming data.It is equipped with 1 HDMI channels input supporting MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 High Profile code format & main Profile code format. Its high integration and cost-effective design make this device widely used in variety of digital distribution systems such as CATV digital head-end. satellite and terrestrial digital TV etc., also it supports VLC decode.
Sometimes ya win one