[streaming] Re: WebCAM Device Recommendations

[Richard Ham]

Tristan,

> It would be interesting to test with ffmpeg as well. Your other
programs
> only display the video; encoding is much more hard ;)

I can only imagine :) I will test with ffmpeg asap ... (tomorrow??)

> Well, it seems that I'm the only maintainer of the v4l feature in
vls...
> I know that vls is not very tolerant, I haven't spent enough time to

And v4l is quite hit and miss?? Only maintainer is hard work....
Thanks for providing the feature !!!!!

> master completely the ffmpeg lib & v4l api capabilities. Providing
that
> I am also involved in other time-consuming activities around
videolan,

I imagine testing all the webcams on the market would be rather
expensive ;)

> other webcams, explaining the vls code or testing remotely on
someone's
> hardware... whatever.

Cool - I'll keep on learning the code and posting the little bits I
find....  as long as someone's listening, I'll spend the time trying
to identify whats causing the trauma.... BTW, has that multicast ttl
issue been nailed yet (I sent a rather full explanation in an email a
while ago....) ????

> By the way, I have worked a bit around the audio bugs; the current
cvs
> should deal much better with v4l devices. This may be a good
starting
> point for the future works.

Excellent!

Thank-you - we do appreciate the work !

Regards,

Richard

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