On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, David Margolis wrote: > 3. Here is the part I don't get! These cards are supposed to do HARDWARE > MPEG 1 and 2 encoding. Savign to AVI and then re-encoding into some MPEG > format seems like ripping MP3s into WAV and then back out to OGG. I admit > I don't get how any of this works, but shouldn't it be more straigtforward > to just _catch_ the already encoded MPEG data and put it somewhere???
I think v4l doesn't support receiving compressed video. The way to receive the stream is probably specific for each card anyway so there wouldn't be a easy way to support them all unless you start writing a driver for each card. -Mark -- Mark K. Kim http://www.cbreak.org/ PGP key available on the website PGP key fingerprint: 7324 BACA 53AD E504 A76E 5167 6822 94F0 F298 5DCE _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
