Has anyone worked with DirectShow and video/audio capture devices? I have a need to capture and save audio and video from six cameras and one mic, though I only need to do three at a time. How feasible would it be to drop three video capture cards in one computer and have it record and mpeg2 encode the streams? In real-time? Magmai Kai Holmlor - Not For Rent

you live next to the girls'' bathroom, huh.

eheheh, no, but now that you mention it I might move

I''ll be recording airplane brake test - lots of fire and exploding tires...

From what I''ve looked into so far, DirectShow doesn''t have any mpeg2 capibilities built-in, you need to buy a third party codec.

Magmai Kai Holmlor
- Not For Rent

Yeah there aren''t any MPEG2 encoders that are included with DShow. About the capturing, I''m pretty sure most computers won''t be able to handle encoding and recording of 3 streams simultaneously


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though, i do remember reading something along the lines of MPEG1 for direct show. or is that undesired?

there is some software mpeg2 decoder code available on the uc berkeley site. just do a search on MPEG2. you should find something.

a2k

The plan was to buy three mpeg2 hardware encoders, so all the computer really has to do is compress one audio stream (mpeg1 layer II), save it all to disk, and send it over a network to another computer for real-time viewing.

Magmai Kai Holmlor
- Not For Rent