[vlc] Re: Firewire

[Jean-Alexis Montignies]

On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 15:19:31 -0500
 That One <cotejoce at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Bonjour!
> 
> Premierement, bravo pour votre travail! Vous etes la premiere solution
> simple pour jouer les Divx sur un Mac!
> 
> Secondo, je me demandais si vous consideriez implementer une routine pour
> envoyer la video jouee par le client VLC via le port Firewire?
> 
> Ca devient de plus en plus courant que les gens ont des cameras DV ou encore
> des cartes de conversion analogue-DV qui utilise le port Firewire... Mais
> pour l¹instant, le playback est limite au codec DV
> 
> En d¹autres termes, pourquoi le port Firewire ne pourrait-il pas etre
> utilise comme un TV-out?
> 
> Merci a l¹avance et keep up the good work!
> 
> Joce, Montreal

It's a fantastic idea.

Quicktime (and I read it's already used for playback on MacOS X) can be used to
compress to DV and send it to the firewire device.
It's fast enough for realtime. However I'm not sure which mac would be fast
enough to do both decompression and compression to DV in real time, vlc seems to
take many ressources already on my iMac.

Jean-Alexis
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