[MPlayer-users] Digital camcoder

[Grzegorz Borowiak]

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Andreu Escudero wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 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.

So what goes via USB? Some kind of control?

> 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.

Thx for info.

-- 
Grzes³aw