On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Chris Worley wrote: > I've got a Buz card, and want to transfer the MJPEG's to another > computer for realtime viewing. > > Lavrec would be easily hackable to output the incoming MJPEG stream to > a pipe rather than a file, but I can't find any mjpeg players that > will play from an incoming stream, rather than a file. I think one of the problems is that the AVI format wasn't designed for streaming. It should be possible to write a program that transcodes an MJPEG file into an I-frame only MPEG-1 stream with no loss and minimum of CPU usage, but I don't know of one. Mpegtv, for one, will play a MPEG stream from a pipe or socket. Otherwise you could just FTP the file and try to play while the download is happening. I think the problem here is that the lavtool made AVI has an index at the END of the file, so if you open it before the end of the file, you get an error reading the index.
