Input from remote webcams into VidBlaster

[amarques]

Hi,

I've been trying VidBlaster for a couple of days and I think it is exactly the tool I need.
Nonetheless I have been having a problem with it and I hope someone can help me:
I need to mix the input from several remote webcams (not ip cams, just normal USB ones connected to different computers). To bring the signal from the cams into vidblaster I've tried several things:
1) Stream the webcam signals through VLC (RTSP or MMS) and use the IP cam feature on VidBlaster to find them directly - did not work
2)Stream the cams through Flash Live Media Encoder into a Flash Media Server and use IP Cam on VidBlaster (RTMP) - did not work
3)Stream the cams through VLC (RTSP) into Wowza Media server and use the IP Cam on VidBlaster to find the stream - did not work
4) Use a trial version of Wirecast to capture the cams and stream (MMS) and use IP Cam on VidBlaster to bring the signal in - WORKED (of course that I do not intend to get a license of Wirecast for each computer I need a camera on, so this solution doesn't really work.)

Also, if I use VLC to stream a video file (avi, MMS) the IP cam on VidBlaster is able to find the stream.
From these, I'm tending to think that the problem is in the transcoder settings I'm using.
Can anyone tell me which formats (and/or settings) will be accepted by VidBlaster's IP Cam? Or any other ideas on how to get this working?

Any help is much appreciated.

[Pj]

The things i have experienced when things are not working is to set the resolution, the framerate and/or the standard of the inputmodule as same as possible as the source signal

[Mike]

Do a search, this has been successfully done and described by several forum members.

[amarques]

Do a search, this has been successfully done and described by several forum members.

Hi Mike,

I might just be extremely forum dumb, but from all the searches I've done, I could not find a definitive solution.

There were suggestions to stream to flash player and capture screen (which is not the best solution). Also, native IP cams seem to work fine via RTSP.

I gather that IP Cam module only supports MJPEG and MPEG-4, am I correct?

If you, or anyone else, could point me to a thread where this was discribed, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks again.

[Mike]

If I do a search for VLC I get 26 hits? I have never experimented with this so can't help you any further I'm afraid.

[amarques]

Not that forum dumb :) That was the first search I did.

Unfortunately, no thread gave me a straight answer.

Again, I'm sure this is just a settings problem (mostly as Pj above mentioned). I'll give it a few more tests and if I come up with a solution I'll come back and post. Probably will be useful to some other people.

Thanks for your (very quick) replies Mike.

[vale184]

Hi Mike,

i have the same problem that you described and would like to know how you managed it?

I`m planning an interactive Movie-Event, that happens in a big room. Several Webcams gives the Input, that is shown on the big screen, but not simultan. only one stream at a time. which webcam is active should be triggered by the user using a button for example. i need a solution how i can get all the streams into one computer that overlays a simple "color-correction" to give the final movie a special mood and to output it to the stream...

Hope you can help me

Thank you!

[erinminute]

only way we have got close and achieved this is through vlc on mac and tight vlc to vidblaster using a capture camera mine was using a mac as the camera but requires a lot of horse power but we had just started testing or team viewer which is free if it is not a comercial venture team viewer seemed the best as far as ease and accuracy not much to set up

[spring]

If Vidblaster supports H.264+AAC UDP multicast TS stream source besides receives RTSP and RTMP stream in, the easy way is VLC streams out H.264 UDP multicast TS stream out, as I know this is the stable way that VLC can.
If so, you can setup any Wencam with remote PCs on the LAN.