Screen to stream · RTSP · UDP MPEG-TS · Browser viewer · Runs for weeks
Put the nav screen on the DVR, the client's VLC and the browser — and leave it running.
WoodVideo Broadcast captures any window — even when it is covered — or a whole monitor on a Windows PC and serves it three ways at once: an RTSP stream for VisualSoft, VLC and DVRs, a UDP MPEG-TS stream (multicast or unicast) and an MJPEG viewer in the browser. It was built to run for the length of a job: the encoder restarts itself on a stall, the source window is found again when its program is reopened, the PC is kept awake, and clients stay connected through all of it.
Portable: unzip and run, nothing to install. Free.
Any window or monitor to RTSP, UDP and the browser
What it does
A video source for the survey network that does not need babysitting.
The nav display, the sonar screen, the survey PC's desktop: pick the window or the monitor, press START, and it is on the DVR and on everyone's VLC.
Capture anything
A window by title (it keeps working when another window covers it) or a monitor; the source is re-found by title when the program behind it restarts.
RTSP for the DVR
Its own RTSP server on port 8554 with a continuous clock, so VisualSoft, WoodDVR, VLC and other DVRs stay connected through encoder restarts.
UDP for the spread
An MPEG-TS stream to a multicast group or a unicast address on the interface you choose — the whole survey LAN can watch at once.
Browser viewer
An MJPEG view on port 8250 for any browser on the network, next to the control panel.
Self-healing
Supervisor restarts on an exit, hang or stall with backoff; keep-awake while on air; GDI objects renewed; FFmpeg killed with the app if the app is killed; a keeper script relaunches the exe.
Portable and simple
One folder with the program, FFmpeg and a data folder for settings and logs. Ports and addresses in the panel; a command-line port switch if 8250 is taken.
Download
WoodVideo Broadcast 1.1.0 for Windows.
Free. Every file is attached to a GitHub release, so the download is fast from any port and the release history is public.
WoodVideo Broadcast 1.1.0 portable
Contact
Questions, quotes and licences.
Every enquiry goes straight to Woody Straley, the survey party chief behind WoodSolutions. Replies usually within a day, including from offshore.