A daft idea about using a printerserver to import video . . .

Luis luis at anachreon.co.uk
Thu May 3 06:04:17 EDT 2007


Hiya,

Why don't you plug it in and browse to the print server IP address?

Cheers,

Luis.


Richmond Mathewson wrote:
> I'm trying to avoid using VideoGrabber as it seems to
> be horribly RAM-hungry. 
> 
> My digital video source grinds along horribly in RR
> (using the "unsupported" Video Capture stack), and
> considering both that:
> 
> my G4 dual processor with 1GB RAM is NOT the bottom of
> the range of potential end-user PCs,
> 
> and
> 
> most PCs don't have Firewire capture capabilities
> 
> that seems a fairly useless way to go.
> 
> So I reasoned that if a video source (rather than just
> a static video file) were available at an IP address
> it could be streamed directly into a videoClipPlayer.
> 
> The "Video Capture" stack is for capturing video and
> saving it.
> 
> I am not looking for anything nearly as sophisticated
> - just a "quick-n-dirty" streaming solution.
> 
> Of course the idea of using a printserver is probably
> daft as, normally, the information normally flows the
> other way, i.e. from the network to the printer.
> However, I don't see how my ethernet port is going to,
> in itself, differentiate between print signals and
> video signals: surely they are both just electronic
> pulses? When the electronic pulses come into the PC it
> is up to some piece of software as to how they are
> subsequently interpreted.
> 
> sincerely, Richmond Mathewson
> 
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