Scoreboard / shot clock stock video footage

[crazycatlover]

If anyone has scoreboard / shot clock video footage I would love to get a copy of it (or a link to youtube). Looking for about 30 or more seconds of relatively stable footage. Example:

Scoreboard Stock Footage (santiago high school)

I did some live streaming this weekend and I tried to manually update a scoreboard, but I did a worse job than the typical high school kid working a desk. (Kidding, parents mess up just as much!).

I am making an app that will take a video feed and use OCR to extract values such as the score, period, clock, shot clock, etc and write the values to a text file on my laptop. This can then be piped into a scoreboard on streaming software (ex OBS). I’m looking for different variations so I can test differences between pools.

This will hopefully give more accuracy, but also go from this clunky setup:

To this:

I mostly have it working for the santiago HS pool.

Thanks!

[Polonewb]

Might be a nice option to have it pull/sync from camera focused on the game/shot clock remote pod that is on the corner of the pool. Self score but clocks are synced.

Is this running live? What is the processing delay (1 second or so)?

[polofan]

Why not just use scorecam? ‎ScoreCam - Embedded Scoreboard App - App Store

You can have video and score with camera and video clock with a phone or something to overlay in bottom right.

[crazycatlover]

@polofan

Why not just use scorecam? ‎ScoreCam - Embedded Scoreboard App - App Store

Did not know about that. I’ll take a look, but I’m trying to avoid costs and have more control of my setup.

[crazycatlover]

@Polonewb

Is this running live? What is the processing delay (1 second or so)?

You can set the update interval (10 second → 30 times / second). It is near real time, but it will eat up more CPU with more frequent updates.

[crazycatlover]

And to clarify, this setup is intended to be used with a B-roll camera that is fixed at the scoreboard.

[Marco]

@crazycatlover

I am making an app that will take a video feed and use OCR to extract values such as the score, period, clock, shot clock, etc and write the values to a text file on my laptop. This can then be piped into a scoreboard on streaming software (ex OBS).

Before you venture down this path, check out ScoreSight. It is exactly what you are planning to create and it is free.

GitHub - royshil/scoresight: ScoreSight is a powerful scoreboard OCR software...

Free - ScoreSight - Free Open Source OCR tool for Gaming and Scoreboards

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[polofan]

Why do you need OCR if you have a camera pointed at the timing and scoreclock ?

[crazycatlover]

I did give this a try and it did 90% of what I needed, but there were gaps and it’s no longer updated.