Webcam encoder by Jacques Matteij?
Cat Hebert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Your friendly neightborhood list-lurker, Cat Hebert, here.
>
> If you can pull it off, the standalone java application seems to me to
> have a lot of promise and has the added advantage of being right in the
> direction people are thinking about for this sort of integrated
> production concept -- so that it isn't a bad career-enhancing project
> for developers. Especially the notion of keeping backgrounds/graphics in
> local storage (DVD is the most likely medium for large-scale apps of
> this sort, but I assume there are lots of other ways graphics can be
> bundled in java).
>
> For live production, the webcam encoder is being used by a number of
> live shooting operations -- including TVOnline, CNET and others, and
> it's designed by an extremely articulate, arts-aware Frenchman, Jacques
> Matteij. Also.....VivoActive is introducing a new product that allows
> you to digitize and encode in the same webserver. (Code named "raptor".)
>
> Good luck with it. I'll be very interested in the results.
>
> Cheers,
> Cat Hebert
> The Virtual Drama Society
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