Stream video game images live to website - recommended USB capture hw &

[cmilkosk]

Hello!

I'd like to stream live video from my Xbox 360 to a site (I'm hosting). So, I'm playing the game, and I want to capture the video and have it post it real time to my site. Obviously, I do not expect the capture frame rate to be high. Any suggestions?

I tried the Pinnacle Digital Video Creator Platinum with the USB Dazzle DVC 170 (firmware 1.2 I think), and got great video quality when I captured video, but I can't capture (or at least don't know how to) outside of the Pinnacle Studio software. I thought the unit would be like the DVC 80 and act as a WDM Image Capture device or other image acquisition device that other programs like webcamXP or Webcam Publisher could see. No such luck. Works great in Pinnacle Studio, but nothing else.

Is there another simple USB video capture device that should be usable with other software like the a webcam publisher that might let me do what I'm looking to do? I might even want to use this device with an old video camera so I have a better than normal looking webcam. Should I just buy a DVC 80 off of eBay or something? I liked the DVC 170's USB 2 and hardware compression because I assumed that they both translated to better speed.

Any ideas would be much appreciated. I hope I posted this to an OK forum. It didn't seem like a newbie question...

Chris

[cmilkosk]

Any ideas?

I haven't returned the Dazzle DVC 170 yet, if anyone has any ideas on simply using that, that would be great too.

I'm just looking to post live video to the Internet with a capture device. I'd rather not point a webcam at the TV since the Xbox 360's component and composite outputs can work at the same time... Also looking to possibly repurpose an old camcorder as a webcam with its composite outputs...

Chris

[bobkart]

I use Webcam-1-2-3 to host a live webcam from my home PC. So if there was a USB device that instead took Composite Video as input (instead of the camera) and looked to the PC like a webcam, that'd get it. But you probably already have the hosting half taken care of (a big part of what Webcam-1-2-3 provided) so you just need some device to take its input from Composite Video and digitize it and make the video stream available to some application that can populate a webpage with the video. Don't know what that device is though, or what that application is. So I don't think I've gotten you any closer to your goal. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.