[MPlayer-users] Digital camcoder

[Andreu Escudero]

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 17:36:05 +0100 (CET), Grzegorz Borowiak wrote
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Ehlo!
> 
> I'm about to buy a digital camcoder. I consider mainly Sony's products 
> (I need their night shot feature). Is this possible to connect 
> camcoder to PC and run mencoder in such way that it would perform on-
> the-fly encoding what camera sends through USB? Or should I pull the 
> whole uncompressed movie through USB to disk and then encode?
Both things are impossible as camcorders don't send video via USB, but via 
ieee1394.
I have tried to 'play' video on-the-fly getting it from the ieee1394, and, 
while I could do it with 'playdv' from dvlib, I was not able to do it with 
mplayer, but perhaps it's possible now. If not, you can always send a bug 
report.
Getting the video (of course not via USB) and after that encoding it works 
without problems.


> 
> Maybe somebody here has some experience with camcoders (esp. Sony's)?
> 
> -- 
> Grzes³aw
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