Desktop Capture and Stream

[geogauci]

Hi!
I would like to capture video from "What you see" on the desktop or from an application and stream it in real time (eg. playing a gaming and outputting the video elsewhere). Needless to say that the delay must be kept to a minimum. I just need some info to get me started.

Thx in advance for any help!

[thannoy]

Hi,

To get started:

* I think you can use a screen as input for VLC, try to feed it with "screen://" as input URL
* you can stream it, resized or transcoded and more using "--sout". Reference about this feature is here: http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_HowTo


I would suggest you to try streaming a legacy file, then modify replace URL when it works.

[geogauci]

Thx! "screen://" was what I was looking for!

[RaptorX]

is it possible to specify an area of the screen that I want casted instead of the full screen? i have seen the width and height parameters for the transcoder but i believe that would just set the size of the transcoded video to those numbers.

[rogerdpack]

I know it has available options they're just not accessible from the command line.
If you use a directshow filter (list: http://betterlogic.com/roger/?p=3059 )
then you can click "options" for some and it will allow you that privilege more easily.

[rogerdpack]

Found the directions for how to use the GUI to choose the specific part of the desktop you want:

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=46971 (at the bottom it tells you how to use the GUI to edit them).

[digihax420]

Can that be used for blogtv?, I would love that for the simple fact that you wouldn't have to use fmle from adobe for broadcasting in HQ.

[berndmeier1979]

is what you see a good program to use? any feedback?

Did you find one? I search for that, too