Hi, Emily Ellington wrote: > I have a wide-screen Dell laptop on a > swinging monitor arm sitting 18" from my face > as I sit in my armchair at home, so I may be > the exception to the rule that "no one watches > movies on their laptop". > > That's exactly what I want to do. > > I have a firewire input carrying the cable > signal that I can access just fine with > Kino and with dvgrab - no problem.
Is this a compressed dv stream, in that special avi format? Or, is it a raw video stream? The reason I ask is that over the last couple of weeks I have been doing some work interfacing with firewire cameras using libdc1394. These cameras stream raw video over firewire, and follow a standard camera control protocol, IIDC. See http://damien.douxchamps.net/ieee1394/libdc1394/index.php and related pages for more info. Primarily I am using vlc for accessing the cam, and I have updated the dc1394 access module to use the library's newer V2 API. > What I want to do is > - just watch the danged firewire input live, > full screen > I do not need to (or want to - yet): > - record > - transcode > - stream > - mux,demux, or otherwise transmogrify anything > > > This sounds so simple, but I've been experimenting > and reading on the net for about 2 weeks now > and have only gotten 1 variant to work - > - vlc server transmogifying it and streaming it > as http to port 1234 > - watching that with mplayer > This setup looks like poo - _and_, even if you > _could_ stand how awful it looks (I can't) it's > so badly lagged for the transcoding that listening > to the sound over my stereo really messes > with my mind. How does it look in vlc on the local machine with no transcoding at all? What access module / input plugin are you using? > Could someone point me to the secret guru source ... > or type the 2-line incantation I need - I'm > completely frustrated that something this basic > is so hard to find on google - surely > it _is_ possible! Oh yes, it must be. > > The freevo connection is - when my replacement > Infocus X1 comes in, I'm going to drag a box > with mega disk space over and install freevo. > When I do, I want to use Freevo to control > (through lirc?) the cablebox and record > 1394 straight to disk (yes - I _do_ know > that takes 13GB/hour - I already have 1.5TB > available and may add more later) - and maybe > transcode something I want to keep to something > more reasonable - so long as it doesn't turn it > to mush (or maybe I'll just archive to DVD > analog-aly by recording on my external > dvd-recorder thingie as I view it.) Streaming it all to disk is a bit overkill. :) It shouldn't be too hard to kludge something usable into Freevo 1.7, and it is certainly feasable for someone to write a module for kaa.record(2?) so it would work natively in Freevo 2. -Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
