H.264 Live encoding or Stream from Canon HV20

Wowza Streaming Engine
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Hello,

Can anyone direct me on how I can encode live form Canon HV20 in HDV mode?

Tried adobe encoder -doesnt work.

Tried on2live - doent work.

WOWZA doesnt start at all.

Thanks in advance

2

You will most likely need some type of capture card to make it work with an encoder.

Charlie

3

It is tough to tell for sure. It depends on how the driver exposes the camera when connected on the machine. You may want to contact the camera vendor.

Charlie

4

Did you try VLC with Firewire ? Should work …

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Guys I am totally novice.

Can you explain clearly if I have to purchase capture card ,which one should I buy and I do nto undersnt VLC.

Thank you repliing and trying to help

John

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in simple terms:

  1. You need a video capture card to use with the camera

  2. You need Videolan(VLC) software to get the stream from the capture card , encode it to H264 and then stream it to wowza server

  3. You need wowza set up so it can restream what comes as output from videolan.

  4. You need a flash player that will conect to wowza and display the stream

  5. You need about a week time to figure out how to set up everything

and finally

  1. you need to do that on a powerful computer as the encoding step requires some CPU

Good luck