I've actually got fxtv running and making mpeg-2 videos (with sound!)
after importing the mpeg tools "mpegaudio", mpeg_encode, and mplex
from the FreeBSD packages collection. So a pure mpeg movie is simple
enough..  My questions are:

- is there a mpeg vid+aud player for NetBSD? mtv hangs on all the
systems I've tried--and the BSDI version the mtv folks have for
download is expired and therefore useless unless i steal an mtv
serial.
- is there anyone out there who's managed to get one of the free mpeg
players like lamp running under netbsd? too much native linux-isms all
over the place, i can't port assembly either. :(
- is there any other video tools i should be looking at under netbsd?
those SDL/avifile/sp proggies are nasty--without heavy modification,
my version of that simple sp player will crash and actually completely
freeze my netbsd system as it tries to allocate outlandish amounts of
ram..
- specifically, i'm looking for encoding tools. a streaming
video/audio solution would be wonderful. is OpenDivX something that
can be used properly under NetBSD ..?

I'd be happy to talk to some people about this, or help with porting,
or ..  well, anything would be great! :)

thanks,
marc

On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Berndt Josef Wulf wrote:

> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 13:47:00 +0930 (CST)
> From: Berndt Josef Wulf <wulf@dingo.ping.net.au>
> To: sudog@sudog.com
> Cc: netbsd-help@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Brooktree/video capture and streaming on NetBSD
>
> sudog@sudog.com wrote
> >
> > So I've got fxtv working well and I'm watching tv in a window on my
> > desktop--very cool, very impressive. But it seems to me the only video
> > capture, compression, etc programs there are out there use Linux-only
> > drivers.
> >
> > For example, ffmpeg opens up /dev/video (video4linux) and tries to
> > read from there. How compatible is the Brooktree (/dev/bktr0) and what
> > sorts of information has it got in there? Obviously if there's a
> > bettre solution than monkeying around with ffmpeg's source I'd like to
> > hear about it, since I don't think my mad skills are quite mad enough
> > for this sort of monkeying.
>
> I use "vid" to generate frames for my webcam page... A raw hack can be
> downloaded from
>
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/wulf/vid-1.0.1-nbsd-hack.tar.gz
>
> With a bit of extra work it may be possible to create a video stream
> if this is what you want.
>
>
> Hope this help
>
> cheerio Berndt
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