VideoLan and web cam, is it posible with avicap32.dll?

[Francisco]

Hi all.
I've been developing a program for transmitting
video stream from a webcam through a LAN using
windows API functions (in avicap32.dll and gdi32.dll libraries),
by now, with poor results. Then I found VideoLan VLC.
I managed to capture the video in several formats
(MPEG, Uncompressed, DivX...), and
store it in a file, but I don't know how to stream it in
real time through a LAN. My first approach was to capture
each frame, compress it and send it via tcpip using
winsocket in a client-server connection (You could imagine
the amount of resources it spends).
I'd like to know if it is possible to compile
a new program using VLC libraries for VC++ or others
for transmitting the stream from the webcam in a LAN.
If anyone is interested I could pass the code.

Thanks for your attention

Francisco Javier
jburgoa@teleline.es

[Gibalou]

Have a look at this version, it features a DirectShow input plugin that can be used to stream webcams, analog video capture cards, etc..

http://www.videolan.org/pub/testing/vlc ... -win32.exe

[ArizonaSteve]

How do you use that version with a webcam? It doesn't seem to have any new input options. Also, I tried that damn test1 program and it don't work but after I loaded it the first version don't work anymore either!

[designguru]

VideoLAN cannot stream raw data directly from the webcam.. You will have to transcode it into say mpeg and then stream it