Quote ="Mediateam"Did the laptop attached straight via firewire (when cams and laptops had them) and used a programme called LONGOMATCH to do the tagging and playback - great for any amateur football/rugby club for video analysis by the way, but the coaching team are reluctant to come across to the East side and LSV wont let me film from the west (though we did it for a full season a couple of years back ???) a regular box on the half way line is not possible due to them being taken by paying 'punters'.
Also unless one buys a high end prosumer camera modern cams dont direct stream from USB, we are doing it on a tight budget so costs will have to be kept to a minimum so mifi is out, not being negative folks just saying it as it is.
I agree the easiest way round is for the coaching staff to be near the camera but at the end of the day I can't force that issue only advice and come up with alternatives.
Thanks everyone for their comments and tips, having a site meeting today with a couple of possible solutions, if money wasn't an issue the Boxx system looks great, Im sure SKY (Telegenic) use it for the roaming camera on Rugby 'shoots' black box on rear of camera with aerials on it.
Ohh to be rich and have no worries about budgets
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I think you misunderstood. Basically you are using the mifi gadget as a router, to provide Wireless Lan to you on the gantry and whoever has a laptop at the other end, so you both connect to the same wireless network. This way you can use it at away games as you are using a battery powered device, you could use a standard router if you have a power socket available, which I assume you do?. MiFi gadgets are cheap as chips on ebay, could probably get one for a tenner! How small is the budget! It does mean you need a laptop at both ends, although you could possibly use something like a Raspberry Pi at your end, cost 25 quid, plug the video capture USB stick into it, depending on if re-encoding is required. I know people have been using Rasp Pi for security cameras so it can be done.
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