It's opening and streaming fine here. Can you view it in quicktime? Maybe try clearing out all your plugins to see if that helps?
I'm on 10.7.2, with a recent iMac here. I've attached the simple comp that works for me. Chris On 10 January 2012 13:29, Charlie Francis <charl...@cellcastonline.com>wrote: > Hi Again! > > I found this as a test example for Wowza and RTSP > http://www.wowza.com/html/mobile.html. Could anyone else please try and > open this with the Movie Importer in Quartz, every time I do it I get the > spinning wheel of death then QC crashes :/ > > Regards, > Charlie > > > On 6 January 2012 16:19, Charlie Francis <charl...@cellcastonline.com>wrote: > >> Thanks for the response Chris, >> >> I've got Darwin Streaming Server working with Quicktime Broadcaster at >> the moment, and I can view the stream in Quicktime using the rtsp >> url rtsp://[machine name].local/mystream.sdp. But when I try to open that >> using the Movie Importer in Quartz it just freezes and then crashes after a >> while. I have set the Movie Importer to Asynchronous to allow for streaming >> content, but it's still not loading the video. >> >> In the future I want to use Wowza to encode the stream, but that's not as >> important as getting it working at all! >> >> Regards, >> Charlie >> >> >> On 6 January 2012 11:22, Chris Wood <pson...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I've used an external webcam before for a project, but it was a >>> network camera that supported video streaming. I found it easiest to >>> get it working in quicktime first - if you can get the stream playing >>> in quicktime it should work in QC too, and quicktime removes the >>> possibility that something else is wrong in your composition and you >>> waste days thinking it's the camera. >>> >>> What you have to do is get the UNC path for the video stream. For my >>> camera it was rtsp://(ip address)/video.mp4 In quicktime you can test >>> if the stream is compatible by going file->open location and adding >>> the path there. >>> >>> Then in QC, you just feed that path to the Movie Importer. >>> >>> It'll show the quicktime logo while it connects and then start >>> streaming. If you're recording, you'll want to remove the logo from >>> the recorded output, and you'll want to detect + fix connection >>> interruptions - this gave me huge headaches! The quicktime logo is in >>> low resolution, so it's likely the output resolution will change when >>> the actual streaming starts. That's easy to detect and handle. >>> >>> If there's a connection interruption (likely with a network camera!) >>> then in some cases it'll automatically handle it, in others it'll just >>> continue outputting the last frame forever. I handled this by using a >>> 2-member queue and a core image filter to get the difference between >>> the current and last frames (the filter is something like "output = >>> abs(currentFrame - lastFrame)"). I then used the Area Maximum patch to >>> get the highest value, and an Image Pixel to get the actual value. A >>> video stream will always have a non-zero value, so if you detect a >>> zero you can reset the movie importer (it has a Reset Signal that will >>> restart the stream). >>> >>> Hope that helps a bit! >>> >>> Chris >>> >>> >>> On 6 January 2012 11:02, Charlie Francis <charl...@cellcastonline.com> >>> wrote: >>> > Hi guys, >>> > >>> > I was just wondering if it's possible to be able to pull in an external >>> > webcam stream and display it through quartz. I have tried to use >>> Quicktime >>> > Broadcaster, but I keep getting a connection error whenever I try and >>> start >>> > broadcasting. Windows users need to be able to broadcast to it as well. >>> > >>> > I've had a look through Kineme's forum but can't find anything helping >>> me >>> > display the stream. >>> > >>> > Thanks! >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Do not post admin requests to the list. 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