Hi.
Is there any review about the video input cards that work best with VLC? Hauppauge? Pinnacle?
Has someone tried a USB2.0 card?
Thanks.
Ramada
choosing a video input card for streaming
I am planning to use WinXP.
I want a card with composite or s-video input (if it has a tv tuner, no prob
). My idea is to have a portable PC box with a 15'' TFT to connect a camcorder and transmit the workshops via unicast to a central server that uses VLC to multicast the video to all the campus. Can you give me an idea of the HW to use?
Thanks in advance, Mark.
Ramada
I want a card with composite or s-video input (if it has a tv tuner, no prob
). My idea is to have a portable PC box with a 15'' TFT to connect a camcorder and transmit the workshops via unicast to a central server that uses VLC to multicast the video to all the campus. Can you give me an idea of the HW to use?Thanks in advance, Mark.
Ramada
For a PCI card, the Viewcast Osprey 210 is a decent, reasonably priced item with good performance, 640x480 resolution, full 30 fps. I use this one myself, both Win2K and WinXP.
For a USB frame grabber, the thing is to make sure that it has DirectX (directshow) support, as that's what VLC uses under Windows.
If I could live with 320x240 resolution, 15 frames per second (at best), I would probably try the Osprey 50 USB; based on what's in the manual, I expect it is a directshow device, though have not personally veified this. Alternately, stay with the 210 but pick up a Magma box -- it's an outboard PCI card holder, with PC card that goes into a laptop. I have not used either of these two approaches (I have, independently, used the Magma box, just not for this application; at near $1K, it's not cheap, but can be much simpler than schlepping around a full size PC if you just need 1 external PCI slot.)
Other vendors make fine products, too, just that I've had good luck with the Ospreys.
For a USB frame grabber, the thing is to make sure that it has DirectX (directshow) support, as that's what VLC uses under Windows.
If I could live with 320x240 resolution, 15 frames per second (at best), I would probably try the Osprey 50 USB; based on what's in the manual, I expect it is a directshow device, though have not personally veified this. Alternately, stay with the 210 but pick up a Magma box -- it's an outboard PCI card holder, with PC card that goes into a laptop. I have not used either of these two approaches (I have, independently, used the Magma box, just not for this application; at near $1K, it's not cheap, but can be much simpler than schlepping around a full size PC if you just need 1 external PCI slot.)
Other vendors make fine products, too, just that I've had good luck with the Ospreys.
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