The Setup
Monarch HD is used at five different sports venues across campus, both indoors and outdoors.
Games are filmed with a Canon Vixia HV40 Camera which outputs an HDMI signal to the Monarch HD unit. A laptop running the Monarch HD Command Center web-based interface controls the unit for starting and stopping streaming and recording. The Monarch HD and the laptop are connected to a router, which streams the encoded video over the internet to College TV Ticket’s media server using RTMP protocol.
Meanwhile, the video is saved to an SD card as standard H.264 files that can be immediately shared and played by just about any application on any device.
Serving Up Content
For the University of Dallas athletics program, adding Monarch HD to their workflow has been a huge step towards upgrading their video production set-up.
According to Yacovissi, Monarch HD has aided immensely with reliability and by simplifying setup and operations, which is important because college students are often the operators during the games.
Coaches are also pleased because they now have easy access to the games to review for training purposes. It has even become common practice for coaches from opposing teams to request a game exchange. With Monarch HD, digital files are immediately available post-game so a copy can be easily made before they even leave the venue.
Another upgrade was an improved network connection that removed a 600-700 kb/s stream bitrate limitation. The Sports Information team is now able to use Monarch HD to provide a higher quality HD video stream for indoor events at 2 mb/s.
“With the Monarch HD, we are able to give fans that live out of state or even out of the country a chance to watch their child play the sport he or she loves,” says Yacovissi. “Being able to record to the same device keeps it simple and also gives a backup solution for archive purposes.”
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