[vlc] Re: FireWire Interface Problem?

[Gildas Bazin]

On Friday 04 February 2005 16:15, Jason Simms wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Today I was trying to stream video from several different FireWire 
> cameras (Sony and Canon models) over UDP transcoded to various formats 
> (mp2, mp4, mjpeg, mpeg) to another machine.  No matter which camera I 
> tried, I always had very strange behavior.  For instance, I would the 
> receiving end would see nothing but several colors.  Or, the screen 
> would be entirely gray.  Most strange, sometimes the video would feed, 
> but the receiving end would see a split-screen (the bottom of the video 
> would be on the top and vice-versa).  In all cases, the video was 
> unwatchable and full of artifacts.  The audio was either inaudible or 
> accompanied by a massive delay and a high-pitch constant static.  I 
> repeated the experiment on another machine with exactly the same 
> results.  Both machines are running Windows XP and VLC 0.8.1.
> 
> However, when I tried the *exact* same settings using an inexpensive 
> Logitech USB 1.1 webcam, everything worked great.  Are there known 
> problems with using FireWire cameras for this purpose with VLC?  Thanks!
> 

VLC 0.8.1 is broken for DV acquisition under Windows. Try the development 
build instead (http://www.videolan.org/~videolan/).
Also note that VLC can't stream DV as is, you'll need to enable transcoding 
for that to work.

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Gildas

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