Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] AVC Firewire support?

[Georgi Georgiev <chutz gg3 net>]

On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 06:57:27PM +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
> In the Firewire case, the device sends a DV stream which has both audio and
> video in it. The current video support of PWLib looks for video frames, decodes
> them and sends them on. The problem is that both video and audio grabbers have
> to use the same stream if they are to be used together. I don't think anyone
> would want to use the audio only. I believe that USB cameras with integrated
> mics simply provide 1 USB hub and 2 devices connected to that hub, which is a
> completely different story.

I just ran ten instances of dvgrab simultaneously and found out that they all
captured the very same stream from my firewire camera. So sharing the device is
not a problem. It should, therefore, be all not too hard to implement sound
support for firewire AVC cameras. I'll do some reading on the subject over the
weekend. I could really use that feature myself :)

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