# H.264 Live encoding or Stream from Canon HV20

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/h-264-live-encoding-or-stream-from-canon-hv20/489>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [November 12, 2008, 10:20pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/h-264-live-encoding-or-stream-from-canon-hv20/489 "2008-11-12T22:20:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/system/32/447_2.png) [@system](https://community.wowza.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 10:20pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/h-264-live-encoding-or-stream-from-canon-hv20/489/1 "2008-11-12T22:20:47Z")

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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

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**Author:** ![Charlie\_Good](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/charlie_good/32/383_2.png) [@Charlie\_Good](https://community.wowza.com/u/Charlie_Good)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 4:42am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/h-264-live-encoding-or-stream-from-canon-hv20/489/2 "2008-11-13T04:42:03Z")

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

Charlie

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**Author:** ![Charlie\_Good](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/charlie_good/32/383_2.png) [@Charlie\_Good](https://community.wowza.com/u/Charlie_Good)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 10:25am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/h-264-live-encoding-or-stream-from-canon-hv20/489/3 "2008-11-14T10:25:39Z")

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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

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**Author:** ![Sebastien\_Faure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Sebastien\_Faure](https://community.wowza.com/u/Sebastien_Faure)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 2:05pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/h-264-live-encoding-or-stream-from-canon-hv20/489/4 "2008-11-13T14:05:22Z")

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Did you try VLC with Firewire ? Should work …

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**Author:** ![John\_Edwards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@John\_Edwards](https://community.wowza.com/u/John_Edwards)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2008, 5:11pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/h-264-live-encoding-or-stream-from-canon-hv20/489/5 "2008-11-13T17:11:13Z")

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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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**Author:** ![SoniX\_Lun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@SoniX\_Lun](https://community.wowza.com/u/SoniX_Lun)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 10:15am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/h-264-live-encoding-or-stream-from-canon-hv20/489/6 "2008-12-17T10:15:07Z")

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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