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I'm a nerd, and like most nerds worth a drat (non-posers), I play D&D with my friends. We recently have decided to try to get people involved remotely via skype and the first dozen or sessions have actually worked out pretty well. With the relative success of this, we wanted to get better infrastructure in the house so we could accommodate more players remotely much better than we currently do. Right now, our setup is really basic. It's just a laptop with a webcam attached to it and we broadcast through skype. Skype has actually worked out pretty decently as it simplifies a lot and the latency is only slightly more than say, a phone, so we are happy with that. We only have one camera though. So the first part of this is that we want 3 cameras. One facing the players, One facing the DM and one overhead that can see the map. The two seeing people are somewhat unimportant as far as quality of video goes, but the one overhead needs to be able to see the detail of 0.3mm~ lines from say, 4 or 5 feet directly above. Also, if it's possible, some audio solution that can capture everything well enough to be intelligible. The other consideration is that we have 5Mbs up worth of bandwidth to deal with, although I don't know how big of a deal that is. So we need: - 3 webcams that are viewable, preferably in a DVR-esq style (pick and choose which ones are the 'main' one at any given time.) - 1 of these webcams needs to be high enough quality to see somewhat fine detail from 4ish feet away - A mic/set of mics to capture audio. - Some kind of software solution to make it all work that can be broadcast out to more than 1 person - 5Mb connection up being the limiting factor. - Budget is under $300, but I really want to keep it as low as possible without sacrificing quality where needed. I unfortunately know very little about this market so any recommendations are appreciated. My current thought is to just buy 3 of these as everyone seems to love them and go from there. Canine Blues Arooo fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Feb 9, 2014 |
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Feb 9, 2014 23:23
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Have you thought about just making a skype account for each camera, and having a group call with each account and your long-distance players?
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Feb 13, 2014 21:51
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That's a great idea, is there an easy way to get 3 instances of skype running on 3 webcams attached to one computer?
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