https://www.onvif.org/ E.g.: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tilt-Joystick-Controller-Monitor-Cameras/dp/B07N8FVMQV Having embedded PTZ controllers available for a protocol is IMHO a good indication of market penetration of the protocol. Most people wouldn't use such a dedicated PTC controller but one out of 1000 PC software based surveillance control software options from vendors, and/or open source. ONVIF is an interesting stew of IETF, Microsoft and W3 protocols, i only worked with the discovery part (UPnP, WS-Discoevery/SSDP), so no idea about the PTZ part, but if you look at the companies in ONVIF you will see most, if not all of the big commercial players. Penetration into low-end home surveillance cameras may differ. I have not looked into this for years now. There is also PSIA, but i can't remember anything interesting about it. Remote theater/event should have more dedicated tooling beyond the generic remote video surveillance infra. For example, when i first installed stuff for remote teleteaching in the 90th, we gave professors red baseball caps, because thats all the PTZ cameras back then could track automatically. Nowadays you would have a lot more tracking of individuals on-stage to automatically derive atmos sound source 3D vectors AND camera tracking for example. But no idea about what good beginners toolchains are. Not sure if SMPTE actually got IP based PTZ into any of their specs. Dr Google can certainly help more. Cheers Toerles On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 11:02:15AM -0700, Michael Thomas wrote: > > I have a friend who is a theater person, who as everybody knows has been > completely shut down. I remarked to him that it's probably time to start > thinking about streaming plays. His counter is that it's expensive which I'm > guessing is mainly in the production costs much more than the equipment. > What occurs to me is that you don't *really* need camera people on site, or > at least it's very plausible that they could do this remotely which would > cut down quite a bit of the cost. > > So the obvious question is whether there are existing standards for remote > operation of cameras, sound equipment, lighting, etc? Is this something > we've done? > > Mike -- --- tte@xxxxxxxxx
