[AG-TECH] sorry, Osprey-200 instead

[Jay Beavers]

I've only played with the h.261 codec.  I haven't found any other codecs
under Windows that will run for any period of time without crashing.  NV
seems to be the next most stable, but I wasn't able to keep an encoder
up 24 hours with it last I tested.

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Olson [mailto:olson at mcs.anl.gov] 
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 4:54 AM
To: Jay Beavers; lujian at nlsde.buaa.edu.cn; ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] sorry, Osprey-200 instead

At 10:48 PM 6/21/2001 -0700, Jay Beavers wrote:
>  However, 640x480 causes VIC
>to crash in all my tests, so this is of limited value.

Wups, sorry for the empty mail. A random splay of fingers on keys did 
something weird :-).

Anyway...

How were you capturing 640x480 (which codec)? h.261 supports only up to 
352x288; you may have hit bugs in other codecs which would be best
fixed.

>The problem with 1394 is it sends YUV 4:2:2 pixel formats with the
>default drivers in Windows XP which causes VIC to crash. I'm currently
>investigating alternate drivers which may be able to return a different
>pixel format, perhaps RGB24, which makes VIC happy.  However, VIC will
>still use a WDM to VfW mapping driver which will add the 4x overhead
>back into the system...

Again, remember one can fix vic to do what is better. I'd rather it not 
capture RGB24 and take the bus traffic hit (since vic is likely going to

change it right back to YUV, taking another hit in colorspace
conversion). 
It would be best to figure out why vic is not happy with the YUV422
video 
(win32 capture code is all in the grabber-win32 module in vic. It would 
also be great to turn that into a zero-copy capture module.

--bob

--bob