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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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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).

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.

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

Did you find one? I search for that, too