[vlc] Re: streaming IEEE1394 on a MacOSX

[Valery Roche]

Unfortunately, there is nothing that could be a firewire device under 
/dev, but I can see the cam with iMovie. Why Apple is so obscure ? I'm 
fed-up. Grrrrrr.
I'm trying again with Linux.

Have a nice week-end,
Valéry

Derk-Jan Hartman wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Well if you are lucky, then there is a device in /dev that represent the 
> firewire device.
> you might be able to use the following commandline in the OSX Terminal:
> cat /dev/devicename | ./VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC --sout udp:  (or 
> however you want to stream)
> 
> So if it is possible then it's like this.
> The OS X version doesn't have support yet for the more general streaming 
> API's which all programs on OSX use for accessing Video devices.
> 
> But i think you are better off with either VLC for windows (cvs 
> development version) or the linux one.
> Be sure to let us know about your results. We'd love to hear about your 
> results, since i think this is something very few people have tried to 
> do so far.
> 
> You might try the chat:
> http://www.videolan.org/cgi-bin/irc/irc.cgi
> If you have any more questions
> 
> DJ
> 
> 
> 

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