Video Input Goes Black On Start Encoding

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anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 09/27/04


Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:58:12 -0700

Use a Firewire instead of USB, It worked for me.

>-----Original Message-----
>I am setting up a live broodcast using 2 sources: a live
>feed from a MINI DV camcorder supporting both video and
>audio and a prerecorded WMV file. When I turn on Windows
>Media Encoder and plug in my camera I can see the
>camera's live video feed in the Input field of the
>encoder. When I "Start Encoding," the video feed from
the
>camera goes black in both the input and output windows.
>The encoder does correctly stream the Audio from the
>camera and all of the Meta data. I can also switch
>sources to the prerecorded WMV file and the stream works
>perfectly with video, audio and meta. The encoder just
>refuses to process/stream the video feed from the
camera.
>When I "Stop Encoding" I can see the video feed from
the
>camera inside the input window again.
>
>Any suggestions will be greatly appriciated. Here's a
>little bit of information that might help you: I am
>attempting to setup this broadcast remotely on a
computer
>in the Czech Republic. I connect using "gotomypc" and
the
>computer has 1.33ghz processor and 256 ram. I have
>lowered all settings to a 58k stream just to test
>processing video from this slower computer and no luck.
I
>have unistalled and reinstalled the Encoder several
>times. I have exported the exact encoder profile and
>tested on a local computer and the stream worked
>perfectly. (video, audio, etc) So the profile seems to
be
>correct, I just can not get this Encoder to process the
>video.
>
>
>.
>



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