[Coco] Re: Help - There that got your attention.
Dave Kelly
daveekelly at earthlink.net
Sun Aug 14 23:29:39 EDT 2005
Brett K Heath wrote:
> Video streams in linux?
>
> google on the following names
>
> cinelerra
> (a full blown quicktime based recording and post production facility)
I had this up and running just before I went to supper. Could not figure
how to make it reconize my video capture card.
> transcode
> (a modular and very flexible command line tool that can do capture,
> denoise, encoding, translation between various codecs and container
> formats, and a few dozen other things)
Have this but it did not show up in a search using 'apropos'.
> VideoLan
> (A set of tools designed to do network video streaming under linux)
Have this. Been working most of the day trying to get it to access my
video capture card.
>
> I'm most familiar with transcode and cinelerra (cinelerra is the successor
> to Broadcast 2000).
This is the third flavor of linux I have tried to run Cinelerra on and
still have not been successful.
Transcode: I don't need to edit anything. What I need to do is take the
image from my camera and give it directly to you over the internet.
My camera is a Sony Hi8 camcorder. No USB. My TV capture card is
Hauppage Win. Uses 'bttv' driver. I have 2 computers with Sempron 1.6
CPUs and 1 gig memory chips. I have a 200gig HD I can install in 1 if
needed. Sound will be added later when I get the video tested.
I have had success with 'camstream' and 'webcam'. But they can only
upload an image every 1 second and that looks kind of jerky.
If you were going to use transcode, how would you construct your command
line?
> The real problem is that unless you have a hardware encoder or a truly
> monster machine you have to capture raw, and this eats disk space at an
> incredible rate (we're talking tens of gigabytes an hour, or more).
As I stated above, this needs to pass as straight through as possible.
Real time.
Thanks for your feedback.
Dave
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