Rick, I've hooked up my Canon MiniDV camcorder via Firewire to my machine and used it for webcam. On two different machines Flash recognized it as a video source in the setting panels. The picture quality was in my opinion great compared to my co-workers connected on their $50 web cams. And with my camera remote I was able to zoom in and out and apply other recording effects like fades and digital effects for no good reason too.
But I think that I've read that officially MM doesn't support the use of firewire cameras for webcams, but they do work. So if something doesn't work and you call them they'll probably tell you, that you're right - it doesn't work. t ********************************************************************** Tyler M. Fitch Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer http://isitedesign.com ********************************************************************** -----Original Message----- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:Rick@;GoLibertyOnline.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 3:51 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Flash Com and CFUG meeting And is there a way to hookup a "real" video camera, complete with wireless mic, instead of using a $50 video cam? While you're beefing up the serving computer, don't forget the adage, "Garbage in, garbage out." If the camera produces only a mediocre image at best, it'll still be mediocre no matter how much horsepower is under the hood of the computer. Is it possible to use a real video camera? Even the cheapest palm-sized video recorder will produce better images than a video cam. Rick -----Original Message----- From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:mdinowit@;houseoffusion.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 2:46 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Flash Com and CFUG meeting That may well be the issue. The laptop was a 400mhz with 128 meg of ram. I've seen much better broadcast performance on my home machine at 2.53 Ghz and 512 meg of ram. While this is not do-able for a laptop, a more modern one would surely help the performance. The camera was a Logitek 4000 which is rather top of the line but the microphone was whatever was built into it. One of the recommendations I'm making for people using this is to have a separate mic (as many have mentioned to me). We'll be doing that for the next meeting. > I think part of the problem with the NYCFUG broadcast was that it was > being done on a laptop that didn't really have enough power to handle > things. The Flash video chat application is just a sample and could > probably be optimized for use in this context. Also the camera and mic > setup was not ideal - when folks were nearer the mic and/or there was > less background noise, things were better (especially when Michael D > spoke more slowly and clearly). Given the $50 video cam, an > underpowered laptop and the fact that the server was hosted in Europe, > I think the quality was pretty good. > > It can definitely be better than that - we've had some high-quality > audio-video broadcasts here with FlashCom and tested it with a much > larger number of users than we saw connected to the NYCFUG broadcast > (or the earlier DevCon Community Suite broadcast). > > If you're having problems getting the quality you'd like, email me > offlist and I'll try to help you work with our FlashCom team to see if > we can resolve the issues (and then we can post back here our > findings). > > Sean A Corfield -- Director, Architecture > Web Technology Group -- Macromedia, Inc. > tel: (415) 252-2287 -- cell: (415) 717-8473 > aim: seancorfield -- http://www.macromedia.com > An Architect's View -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ > > Introducing Macromedia Contribute. Web publishing for everyone. Learn > more at http://www.macromedia.com/contribute > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm
