VideoGrabber on Windows

Richard Miller wow at together.net
Mon Mar 22 11:51:19 EDT 2010


Do not use VFW. The DirectX setting is not documented. Try to follow the 
code I sent. Disable "use video for windows".

All of my video work with Rev is QT based.

Let me know.

Richard





On 3/22/2010 11:46 AM, Klaus on-rev wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
>    
>> Klaus,
>>
>> Initialize the videograbber with this line:
>>    revInitializeVideoGrabber short name of this stack,"DirectX",rect of image 1
>>      
> is this "DirectX" the same as "VfW"?
>
>    
>> Use this basic sequence to record video and audio:
>>
>>       revSetVideoGrabSettings "myvar"
>>      
> Getting/setting the videosettings did not work for us with "VfW" at all.
> The variable was always empty!
>
>    
>>       revSetVideoGrabAudio true,"1","16","16000"
>>      
> Does this still work?
> I have been searching this in the docs for at least the last three versions of Rev! :-/
>
>    
>>       revRecordVideo myfile
>> Don't use the newest videograbber.dll. I've found it does not allow access to the Compression dialog box. Use an older version. I can make it available if necessary. I reported this bug some time ago, but have not received a response from the engineers.
>> Use the new DivX (www.divx.com) codec for best results.
>>      
> See below, we need QuickTime for everything, since we are developing a crossplatform tool
> which has to work out of the box.
>
>    
>> Let me know how that goes. The above works well for me under Windows 7.
>>      
> Basically it all works for us, but we need the user let record video in DV format, so we
> can compress them with Trevors wonderful QT external.
>
> Thanks anyway! :-)
>
>    
>> Richard
>>      
> Best
>
> Klaus
>
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> klaus at major.on-rev.com
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