[Bf-committers] can we update ffmpeg to have RTSP support?

[Fazekas László]

I agree. For win32, besides of DirectShow, there is the simple old VfW 
input. I think it's still working and it has a wrapper for DirectShow. 
For OSX, the video capture is in the commercial version of Quicktime.

But there are incompatible hardwares with their own interface (for 
example, BMD DeckLink). So perhaps a raw input through a fifo (named 
pipe) is still a good option.

2014-07-16 05:34 keltezéssel, Reuben Martin írta:
> On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 12:55:49 PM Campbell Barton wrote:
>> On the other hand we end up loosing time to support various
>> configurations, its hard to know beforehand if enabling options incurs
>> maintenance overhead.
>>
>> Seems like a special case - couldn't the BlenderCAVE/remote-camera
>> users who want RTSP  do their own builds?
> May I suggest enabling v4l2? In conjunction with the v4l2loopback kernel
> module (https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback) you could use it as a shim
> to interface with any source available to ffmpeg / gstreamer / mlt / whatever
> support v4l2. That way all you need to deal with is uncompressed video. No
> codecs to worry about since it's would be decompressed by whatever is feeding
> the v4l2loopback input. Also a big bonus is that it's non-blocking, unlike a
> FIFO interface.
>
> For windows, I'm sure there is something similar that could be done with
> directshow. For Mac you might consider something like Syphon.
> (http://syphon.v002.info/)
>
> -Reuben
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