Chapter 11. Stream from a DV camcorder
Note: This is possible under GNU/Linux only.
Install the libraw1394 and libavc1394
If you want to be able to stream from a DV camcorder, then you need to install the libraries libraw1394 and libavc1394:
• if you use a Fedora Core distribution then you just need to install the libraries using:
%yum update
%yum install libraw1394 libavc1394
• if you want to install the libraries from the source then you must download them from the libraw1394
(http://www.linux1394.org/) and libavc1394 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/libavc1394) from their projects website.
• if you have a distribution that uses udev (http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug), then you must add/change the
following line to the file 50-udev.rules in your /etc/udev/rules.d directory.
%vi /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules
# IEEE1394 (firewire) devices (must be before raw devices below)
KERNEL=="raw1394", NAME="%k"
KERNEL=="dv1394", NAME="dv1394/%k"
KERNEL=="video1394
*
", NAME="video1394/%n"
The following sections assume that you have a working linux installation with the IEEE 1394 (Firewire) libraries installed,
either manually from the source code or through your distributions upgrade mechanism.
Stream with DV
Connect the DV camcorder with a Firewire cable to your computer, and check the creation of the file /dev/raw1394.
Run VLC with the following command line :
% vlc -vvv dv/rawdv:///dev/raw1394 --dv-caching 10000-sout ’#transcode{vcodec=WMV2,vb=512,scale=1,acodec=mp3,ab=192,channels=2}:std{access=mmsh,mux=asfh,url=:8080}’ --sout-transcode-fps=25.0
where:
• dv/rawdv:// is the DV input and /dev/raw1394 the device file ,
• dv-caching is the delay is miliseconds (ms) (start with a high value, 10s or so, and lower it later) ,
• sout is the stream output chain that is used to stream the DV camcorder as a multimedia stream over the network. The
transcode syntax is explained in the chapter about transcoding. The example as given above generates a multimedia
stream that is compatible with Windows Media Player ,
• sout-transcode-fps is the number of pictures per second 25.0 that the transcode module should generate of the requested
audio/video codec.
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