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Anybody?
Dont seem to work for Scoutie either..

What OS do you run and what build of VLC do you use? My guess would be that the ATI drivers are a bit off. Are you using the Catalyst drivers or the smaller WDM drivers? I had probs with the Catalyst, and besides I did not need all the sticky features, after switching drivers it all worked fine for ...

Now I have tried the same thing with my Hauppauge PVR-350, same problem. :( Here is my launch string: vlc -vvv dshow:// --dshow-vdev="Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture" --dshow-size="640x480" --dshow-tuner-channel=22 --sout #transcode{vcodec=DIV3,vb=1024,scale=1,acodec=mp3,ab=19...

Hi All, Been a while since I posted here, Its good to be back. =) I got extremly happy when I saw scouties work on streaming tv capture with channel selection and stuff, Great Work! Back to this thread: I can't set any capture resolutions above 352x288 when using the command line argument --dshow-si...

Hi Rytdim. I've had similar probs with videolan and my PVR-350. After much cursing and hairloss I yanked the card from the machine and installed it in another box I had using drivers fresh from the hauppauge homepage and from http://www.shspvr.com. Then it simply worked, right away, no transcoding o...

That did it!

Subs run fine now without impacting CPU whatsoever

Thanks Sigmund and Gibalou!

Any TCP session would handle ACKs and retransmits of lost packets. unless it times out... But it will create more overhead and is not really well suited for broadcast type streams. On the other hand it is usually established from the client instead so firewall rules are easier to handle in general. ...

Far Out!

What was the problem?

(ed) I have an old NVidia GeForce FX 5200

Yup, that is pretty much what I want
Though the Dscaler code seems to be hardwired to work only with one capture device which is a shame :/
(edit) wrong of me, they do support several RAW capture cards, not my PVR-350... Blargh.

I did some struggling on this for my Hauppauge PVR-350 as well. There is no support for channel tuning in the Dvideo interface on VLC yet. However if you can manage some kind of out-of-band channel to your streaming box then you can probably come up golden. In my case channel tuning is performed usi...

I wonder if anyone have tested the performance of received video during packet loss? for instance, if the UDP packets contain incomplete MPEG data the device will have to wait for the next GOP/Keyframe before video clears up again. Just reading data and sticking it onto an earlier frame will probabl...

Umm, not totally sure but I think it just grabs the separate fields from the video source and turns it into mpeg2, thus it does not really perform any interlacing as much as just passing on original interlacing.

Has there been any developers on this issue?
I am seeing the same probs with subs causing jerky video because the CPU goes smack in the roof...

Win2kPro-sp4 P4@2Ghz 512 Ram Dx9.0b and overlay enabled

Cheers!

I have not seen this leak, but I have only captured a total of an hour or so at a time.
But now that You mention it I will take a close look at my box during a couple of hours to see if I get the same behaviour.

Cheers!

Yup

Tested both high and low bitrate settings.
A kind of poor mans prefiltering is to capture the source data at a lower resolution that the source picture thus scrambling the interlacing artifacts into a fuzz, cant say it improves overall quality, but it gets rid of mpeg4 artifacting to some degree.

Hiya! Transcoding from capture devices gets pretty messy results since there is no filtering or deinterlacing of the source signal before VLC starts to crunch it into mp4v or similar. Especially at bitrates below 1000kbit. Performing a realtively simple deinterlace and/or a noise filter before the t...

Hi guys! Since I am doing simliar stuff with VLC and a PVR350 I have some comments. The PVR 250/350 cards are mpeg2 hardware encoders only, they dont even show a raw device, sadly :/ The quality of the mpeg2 stream can of course be adjusted in all kinds of ways (resolution, bitrate, GOP size etc..) ...

And that was me posting... seems I took too long to write the message

I have the same issue here. And it is on a wide variety of boxes, mainly P4 and PIII running 2K or XP. VLC takes between 5-25 seconds to load. Personally I see it as a mere annoyance. However, used as a multicast client on user workstations it is a problem since "users" generally have very...

Thanks for the answer Markfm and Zorglub. I have tested WinTVCap earlier for just those purposes but it seems that these apps need exclusive access to the DirectVideo drivers, none of them will init properly when VLC is running. There is an applet called WinTVOCX that can be found here: ftp://167.20...

Hi All I have finally got my PVR 350 to work flawlessly with VLC. TV is beautiful, *audio* is beautiful, streaming works beautifully! All is joy and I can watch TV from any box in my house and I can script file or pvr streams over the internet via my own command line client. In windows... Life is go...

This family of questions seems to come up a lot lately. Would it not be possible to get a drop down list of all enumerated pins that the Directvideo source is reporting? Then to be able to use this to force VLC to connect to a specific one? Looking in the debug log I can see that VLC is enumerating ...

Attached is a full log of a session in VLC: main debug: adding playlist item `dshow://' ( dshow:// ) main debug: creating new input thread main debug: option: :dshow-vdev=Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture main debug: set input option: dshow-vdev to Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture main debug: opt...

Oops, forgot to log in there.
Me posting the abowe one.

In addition the WinTv Source Selector suggested by someone else crashes on my box, so I'm starting to think that something is badly wrong with my setup...

Dont know if this is tearing as other people understand it... Hi again by the way :) Whenever I play movies in fullscreen I see a noticeable diagonal line between the upper left and the lower right corners. It seems as if the two separated parts of the image are updated one frame out of synch so it ...