Copenhagen Suborbitals Release Snowmix, an Open Source Video Mixer

I'm the guy that initiated the Stream team and is leading it. Here are a few clarifications:

- Technically the streamteam isn't a part of Copenhagen Suborbitals, but rather a part of the support organization Copenhagen Suborbitals Support. The streaming initiative was set in motion to capture more viewers and members of the support organization.

- The primary reason we created this software wasn't that the videomixing needed to be done at sea - it's a bit more complicated than that. Launches are done in the Baltic Sea, 30-40 km. east of the Danish island Bornholm. In order to stream live we managed to get a wi-fi connection going from Bornholm to the mission control ship 40 kilometers away, but we couldn't reliably get enough bandwidth to stream all our camera positions to Bornholm. Furthermore internet connection on Bornholm is not very good. The result being that we needed to do the videomixing at sea. Only problem was that the broadcast studio, and thus the people that need to do the vdeomixing, were placed in Copenhagen. The result being this videomixer where we can send two streams from the launch site at sea: the livefeed and a mosaiq of available camera positions. The studio in Copenhagen can then remotely mix the livefeed based on the mosaiq using a webbased interface, or a commandline.

Here's a blogpost Peter (the author of snowmix) wrote about it: http://raketvenner.dk/?p=689

We have more great stuff in the works for next years launches including autonomus vessels with cameras, video overlays with live telemetry data from the rocket, and probably more great geeky stuff!

If you want to join us send me an e-mail, it's in my profile. Nobody gets paid but it's damn fun! And rockets!

It looks pretty interesting to do the video mixing at the source.

I would just recommend the developers to use GitHub instead of http://sourceforge.net/projects/snowmix/. That would ease the contributions.