Re: Live webcam capture and streaming to a network file server

From: Mahmudul Hoque (m.hoque_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/16/04

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    Olivier thanks for you reply.

    I don't want to save anything to the local machine, but stream (push)
    the video as it is captured by the webcam to a remote machine for
    storage. Cannot use SetOutputFileName as it requires a windows
    filename, the only way I can get data to the remote server is by
    sending data over raw TCP/IP.

    The closest thing is the DSNetwork sample in the DirectX SDK. Except I
    want to use data from a webcam instead of MPEG-2 data stream and use
    unicast push instead of multicast.

    I can easily change the multicast to unicast, but because I am new to
    directx I am not sure how to change the filter so that it can except
    data from a "Windows Media Video" encoder.

    Thanks
    Mahmud

    Olivier Antoine <o.antoine@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:<D69978A4-CDF5-45F9-8E4B-47A2FD7227B4@microsoft.com>...
    > Probably the best (most direct) way to implement such a fonctionality is using Directshow...
    >
    > Just create a Capture Graph, instanciate your webcam source filter and render it to a wmv file using the SetOutputFileName method of the capture graph builder interface (MEDIASUBTYPE_Asf).
    >
    > Hope this helps!
    >
    > Olivier
    >
    >
    >
    > "Mahmudul Hoque" wrote:
    >
    > > Hi, I am a newbie to Windows Media so apologizes if this has been
    > > answered in the past.
    > >
    > > I need to write an application that captures live video from a webcam
    > > and then sends the the data to a network server for storing as wmv
    > > files. The server is something I will write that reads the raw data
    > > from the application and writes it to a file. What is the best way to
    > > do this? Should I use DirectShow, Format SDK, or both?
    > >
    > > I don't think I can use publishing points with Windows Media Server
    > > because I don't want to do a live broadcast. Although the files will
    > > eventually be delivered to clients using Windows Media Server.
    > >
    > > Any ideas on how best to implement this, samples, etc. would be really
    > > appreciated.
    > >
    > > Thanks in advance.
    > > Mahmud
    > >

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