URGENT: Using camera with 2 different softwares

[zdragomir]

This is very urgent.

I have one sony DV camera connected to the firewire port.

I want to:

- capture the video using WinDV
- stream the video to a server


The problem is that only one program can access the device at one time. Is there any hack around this?

[zdragomir]

Something that can clone the camera device...

[redwudz]

You could try VLC. I don't know if it would work for what you want to do, but it does have a streaming option.

And welcome to our forums.

[liquid217]

Do you have a standard capture card in the pc? (not talking about the firewire card) Run the video out from the camera to the video in, on your capture card and stream it with that (most of the prepackaged software that comes with a capture card has some type of streaming utility). Then just capture normally with WinDV

[edDV]

Do you have a standard capture card in the pc? (not talking about the firewire card) Run the video out from the camera to the video in, on your capture card and stream it with that (most of the prepackaged software that comes with a capture card has some type of streaming utility). Then just capture normally with WinDV

Most DV cameras also have a low bitrate 352x240 CIF output over USB ready for streaming directly.