Re: [Motion-user] DV 1394, named pipe?

[xtophr99 <xto...@gm...>]

I am able to pipe dvgrab to vlc; how do I get that to motion in a reliable,
high load fashion?

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Colin Law <cl...@go...> wrote:

> On 14 September 2012 19:11, xtophr99 <xto...@gm...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've successfully used motion with an old Logitech USB camera (so I've
> got a
> > good install), but would like to use a 1394 camera.
> >
> > I'm not aware of a way, with current kernels, to get a 1394 camera to
> work
> > as a /dev/video device.
> >
> > I can capture video with dvgrab.
> >
> > I've piped the output of dvgrab to ffmpeg and then to an mjpeg file,
> which
> > motion is able to access.  However, the file gets large quickly, hence
> the
> > desire to use a pipe.
> >
> > When I direct the stdout of ffmpeg to the named pipe, it waits there;
> once
> > motion tries to access the file it dies.
>
> Can you get the output of dvgrab into vlc?  If so you can use vlc to
> generate an mpjpeg stream and avoid the use of a file.
>
> Colin
>
>
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