[HLUG] usb video capture

[Ralph Jones]

Hello John, hello all,

I can't help you specifically with any of your questions, but you might want 
to try the following websites/forums:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

I think the VLC player is what you're looking for as regards streaming output 
over a network, and I'm sure on their many webpages there are sufficient 
howtos and links as regards your other queries.

Another favourite of mine is:

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee/forums

They're a friendly bunch, but sometimes from my plain-jane desktop-user 
point-of-view a tad too technical (to a fault - see they video card thread as 
regards how serious they take their hardware).

I hope these help

Regards
Ralph


On Thursday 01 September 2005 16:57, j michaelson wrote:
> hello all,
>
> i've been looking at ways of getting video into my pc. i'm intrigued
> by usb devices like this...
> http://www.vertexinfo.com/usbmpeg1.htm
> ...because i could use it on various machines and it looks fairly simple.
>
> has anyone used anything like this before? i want to be able to watch
> it, record it and possibly stream the output over a network.
>
> is it essential to get a device that encodes the video into mpeg or
> are there versions that simple pass it on to the computer unencrypted
> and let the computer do its own encryption? if these devices exist are
> they cheaper?
>
> also can anyone reccomend a good program for editing mpegs? i'd like
> be able to cut them up re-arrange them and splice bits back in.
>
> thanks in advance
> john
>
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