vic allows streaming mjpeg's using rtp etc all according to the relevant rfc's. Of course vic has not been modified to use the hardware mjpeg features of the buz (as far as I know). vic works with other mjpeg boards on non-linux systems - perhaps it would be quite easy to modify for the buz? On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:34:23PM -0800, Trent Piepho wrote: > 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Video4linux-list mailing list > Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list >
