[vlc] Re: Frame Grabber Selection

[Gildas Bazin]

On Monday 12 May 2003 22:30, Mukesh Motwani wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
>   I have an application in which I have real time analog signal (NTSC) 
from
> a camera attached to the frame grabber. I want to compress this data using
> MPEG2/MPEG-4/MJPEG on linux and stream it to another computer on the LAN
> where I need to decompress and process the images. I went through the VLC
> website and it seems very promissing. However the website mention only 
about
> the kfir frame grabber. I dont want to use kfir because it gives 30fps
> combined for all channels. I have found a frame grabber which gives 120fps
> combined for all the 4 channels and uses the BT878 chipset. I understand
> that the BT878 chipset has a linux driver which I have to patch with the
> kernal but I am not sure VLC would work with it? Can anyone please shed 
some
> light on it? I would appreciate any suggestions.
> 

As long as your frame grabber has a Video4Linux driver then you can use VLC 
to encode the video in realtime and stream it to your LAN. However the v4l 
input is only useable in the current development version of vlc (VLC-0.5.3 
should be out soon though).

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Gildas
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