From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 18 10:37:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.home.nl (mail2.home.nl [213.51.129.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A996337B698 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:37:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from ricin.localnet ([212.120.85.64]) by mail2.home.nl (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20010118183533.KGWR14185.mail2.home.nl@ricin.localnet>; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 19:35:33 +0100 From: Danny Pansters To: Lu!s Croker Subject: Re: Video4Linux ! HELP !!!!! Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 19:38:17 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" References: In-Reply-To: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01011819381700.01019@ricin.localnet> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nope, AFAIK the Real encoder software can only do live encoding when running Linux because it uses Linux'es audio and video devices. The BSD bktr driver is not the same as the v4l driver. So, it won't work and I highly doubt if Real will ever do anything about it, judging from the shitty hand-me-down that the linux realencoder itself is. About a year ago, they had a realproducer plus version for Linux that had a whole bunch of Java around it to make it run and render video in X11. It actually worked but was initially broken (missing java parts, fixed it) and quite unstable. Now they only have the console version. Face it, they only want you to run their $erver $oftware on *NIX, not the client programs (ok, they had to deliver a player for X11, but don't tell me its a good piece of software). The server (very expensive) and its compression codecs are what they need to capitalise upon. Greetings, Danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message