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From: "Füves Zoltán" <zoleexfz@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] linux usb webcam to website
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:04:48
Message-Id: 4B4D0001.70204@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] linux usb webcam to website by "Albert W. Hopkins"
1 Albert W. Hopkins írta:
2 > On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 11:53 +0100, Zoltán Füves wrote:
3 >
4 >> Sorry guys to disturb you with like this but I'm stuck
5 >>
6 >>
7 >> I have to 4 usb webcam stream (from 4 different machine) embed to a
8 >> website
9 >>
10 >> I read and try adobe flash media server (and it likes to work on
11 >> linux ) but
12 >> unfortunately the encoder witch "stream" the webcam to the server is
13 >> available only windows :( (of course no linux version yet someone use
14 >> wine
15 >> to use but I think this is not the best solution )
16 >>
17 >> I looked for any alternatives I found red5 and an article about how to
18 >> use
19 >> the local flashplayer plugin publish the cam ( http://ptm.fi/?p=29 ,
20 >> http://ptm.fi/?cat=6 ) but I dont really know how to start
21 >>
22 >> Is it worth to try usb-server to use remote cams as local device?
23 >>
24 >> If anybody had experiences about like my problem please help my to
25 >> give
26 >> some info and manual link
27 >>
28 >> of course I don't insist the adobe product and solution I just want to
29 >> work
30 >> :)
31 >>
32 >> thanks your time and help
33 >>
34 >> have a nice day
35 >>
36 >> Z.
37 >>
38 >
39 > I may have misunderstood your question.
40 >
41 > Last summer I was looking to stream my webcam to flash. I think I
42 > looked at the red5 product but decided against it. There's also some
43 > web services that will do it but I didn't want my webcam hosted on
44 > another service.
45 >
46 > So I ended up using a vlc script. vlc is cool because not only can you
47 > stream to flv but just about any other format.
48 >
49 > script will look something like this:
50 >
51 > WIDTH=320
52 > HEIGHT=240
53 > BITRATE=512
54 > BITRATE=1024
55 > CODEC1=FLV1
56 > AUDIODEV="/dev/dsp1"
57 > DEV="/dev/video2"
58 >
59 > vlc \
60 > -I dummy \
61 > v4l2://${DEV}:width=${WIDTH}:height=${HEIGHT} \
62 > :input-slave=oss://${AUDIODEV} \
63 > --sub-filter time \
64 > --sout \
65 > '#transcode{vcodec='${CODEC1}',vb='${BITRATE}',acodec=mp3,samplerate=11025}:std{access=http,dst=127.0.0.1:8082/stream.flv}}
66 >
67 >
68 >
69 >
70 Thanks your answer (at the and of the day I chose vlc solution too :
71 ) ) so it is worth the try
72
73 Z.