[Live-devel] broadcaster for quicktime

[Stephen Birch]

Jay Lyerly(jayl at ceintl.com)@2005-09-23 13:32:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm investigating building video streaming into an application.  The  
> app itself is a data visualization tool and I'd like to add streaming  
> for the data window.  An immediate goal is to share the viz window  
> via iChat.  From what I gather, the 3rd party tool, ichatusbcam will  
> let me set my video source to any QuickTime Video Source.  With the  
> live555 library, can I build such a thing?  It looks like the  
> streaming server itself is relatively straight forward, but I'm a  
> complete QuickTime neophyte and don't quite understand how this could  
> become a QuickTime Video Source (like a DV/USB camera, if its even  
> possible).

So you are looking to take input from the DV/USB camera and then
stream it out using live555? Which format are you going to use?

> 
> I've read through some of the quicktime lists, but the quicktime  
> streaming stuff seems relatively poorly documented and not well  
> understood by many folks.  Live555, on the other hand, seems pretty  
> popular with an active community.  The cross platform nature is also  
> very appealing.
> 
> Any suggestions, pointers or hints greatly appreciated.  I'm mostly  
> just unclear on how this might fit in as a quicktime source.
> 
> Thanks for the info,
> jay
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