Since video came up, I thought I'd ask this question that I've
been thinking about...


Problem definition:

Our schools have closed circuit (or maybe cable) TV, over which
the students broadcast a home-grown News/announcements/etc
program for about 5 minutes each morning.  Currently they
archive the shows to video tape, so the students doing the
show can eventually watch themselves, but finding a particular
5 minute segment in a pile of multi-hour tapes can be quite
a challenge.


What I want:

I'd like to find software (and hardware, but I assume that part
is relatively easy) for a basically stand-alone, unattended box
that could connect to the TV studio "output", sense when there
is active/good video, and record that to a time-stamped file that
would be accessible on the school computer network (I assume the
"network accessible" part is reasonably easy as well.)  Momentary
glitches should probably not cause a new file to be created, but
perhaps there should be a maximum length allowed?  The automatic
sensing of good signal and automatic recording to timestamped file
is the important part.

Does anyone know of anything that does this?

Thanks
Bill W
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