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in thread Flash Media Server - Kamaitachi

Hi,

First I just want to say Thanks! for giving it another shot. There appears to be some kind of strange corner-case that was causing a fatal error, blah blah blah. Yes - the server had died at some point, but I think it's fixed for now.

If you could spare another minute, please go there again and test it out. http://www.devstack.com/kamaitachi-test/

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Re^5: Flash Media Server - Kamaitachi
by zentara (Cardinal) on Jan 30, 2009 at 14:57 UTC
    Hi, I finally got it to work on my Ubuntu system. There was a glitch though...and probably due to my system setup, and it accounted for the static bar I originally experienced. My camera needed to be initialized to Composite mode, and your Flash app didn't do it. I opened xawtv, set mode to Composite, and NTSC , then the Flash worked. It's a cool Flash app.
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      Wow - thanks for the info.

      I wonder what that's all about, with the Composite mode, etc? There's no way to affect the camera's mode from Flash, so I figure it's just a Linux thing.

      After some more testing, it looks like timing is important as well. A few seconds must pass between clicking "Publish" and clicking "rec start" - otherwise nothing is recorded.

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        Well, I'm using an old NTSC camera, and you need to run it thru a capture card for v4l2 to understand what it sees. There are various settings, like NTSC or PAL(Europe and S. America), etc. The TV cards also need to have a setting to tell them they are receiving a camera input (composite video) and not a TV signal. It's all going out of date, as the newer pure digital cameras take over. You can look at ztk-v4l-video-bloger/recorder to see how you need to use v4lctl to initialize old cameras. You can also start up xawtv, and look at the settings to see what your card/camera can do.

        I have an el-cheapo digital usb webcam that I will test later. I think everything is going digital/usb now.

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