[Nelug] Streaming web cam on fedora 8 with ffmpeg

[Bob Groves]

Daniel Tweedy wrote:
> Bob Groves wrote:
>   
>> Daniel Tweedy wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Has anyone had any experience of streaming a web cam with ffmpeg ?
>>>
>>> I've been reading this guide here its on the ubuntu website but seems to
>>> work just the same on fedora.
>>> http://ph.ubuntuforums.com/showthread.php?t=665607
>>>
>>> I'm getting a lot of buffer underflow errors, have installed cheese and
>>> the webcam works fine in cheese for just checking if it works the video
>>> is a little choppy like low fps.
>>>
>>> Any help as to why getting buffer underflow would be greatly 
>>> appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>> Daniel.
>>>
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>> I use Palantir -  http://www.fastpath.it/products/palantir/
>>
>> ... works exceptionally well (see my website = htttp://www.bobgroves.net)
>>
>>     
> Hi Bob,
>
> That looks pretty awesome seems to offer just what I was after, just one 
> question tho I was kinda hoping to stream the video out as flash video 
> flv dont suppose you know if thats at all possible ?
>
> Or if anyone knows how to stop the buffer underflow messages in ffmpeg ? 
> its streaming my webcam but it grinds to a halt eventually sigh.
>
> Thank you all.
> Daniel.
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It might well be possible to capture the output stream as flv, though 
you'd have to consult the Palantir docs to see how it might be done as I 
haven't a clue :-)

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Bob Groves 
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