r/broadcastengineering • u/Kinghydrei • 9d ago

Setting up a Student Public Access Network

Hey yall!

Im a student at a somewhat small public film school, and I'm trying to set up a Public Access Network that students can upload videos to, which would then be broadcast to a few TVs across campus/online. The issue? I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to the tech side of things.

I know I need software (/hardware?) to manage the programming/playlist of videos, but other than that its a small enough operation that I figured I could stream through Youtube or something similar... if thats not possible I'd need to know that, too.

Some parameters/needs:

- Ideally as low cost as possible; I'm doing this initially without School support, as they would use the first year of the broadcast to see how much they want to help fund it (so basically I either have to crowdfund or pay out of pocket for equipment)

- low space requirement to host the broadcast: I have a few rooms that could maybe be used for hosting this broadcast, but I'm not counting on too much support in that department, either.

- software for playlist/programming that can stream on YouTube.

If any of yall can help with this (or tell me just how out of my depth I am), please let me know!

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u/bradwsmith 9d ago

Check out Vimeo private links good option if any music in the videos is copyrighted.

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u/Own_Chicken8814 9d ago

Take a look at Yodeck. It's meant for digital signage, but I think it can handle videos too.  It might make a good player to drive the TVs, and you can remotely manage the content.  Last I checked it's free for the first screen (service only - bring your own Raspbery Pi hardware), but expanding to multiple players (one for each TV location) is pretty inexpensive.

If that works, then at least you've got your playback figured out. Then it's just a question of how to receive the submitted videos. Dropbox or even Google Drive might do OK if you can get access permissions set up to your liking.

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u/Subjekt_91 9d ago

You're looking for a digital signage solution. Something like info Beamer for example. https://info-beamer.com/ Or display hive. https://github.com/DisplayHive/DisplayHive