Thread: One-Click WebCam Recording!

Originally Posted by Curiosity

That might be a lot of work and double the requirements on the processor if it's 2 full graphs. All the code may need to be doubled or loops for everything. Graph[n].blah

I think the easiest way to do it would be 2 preview renderers with the small one overlaying the other, resizing and popping the small one to front. That way you don't have to merge the streams. It's kind of fake though.

Otherwise a PIP filter? What if the 2 devices are at different resolutions? I guess it has to be decimated to 1/4 or less anyway, but hey what could go wrong? lol

Yes thats a fair point, but some people are using 2x the original capture as it is. In the old version you could set them to left of right so that each instance started on one side of the other. These are the guys I am trying to cater for. If they want a PIP type setup (for preview only) I think we can manage that by quite easily having 2 capture objects and setting one to the main preview window and another to a smaller window. Only problem I can see is the menu structure is really arranged around one cam. Sounds nice in principal, but the more I think of it, the harder it gets! Think the menus would need to be nested off the device that is selected rather than as seperate menus. Also need to make sure the second instance of capture object is setup with no sound and no GPS filter to keep it clean. Arg, thats quite a lot of work! Just want to get it working for the double capture guys as we've in effect broken it for them atm.

Yes, it really is a lot harder. Back in the pre-TiVo days I had 2 TV tuners and 1 could preview while the other could record with preview option, but it was 2 seperate windows. A lot of it was passing a struct to functions that had all the COM objects and variables. Each window had all the menus and options, so it could have easily been more. But I can imagine your menu idea. Have each video device listed with submenus for record, preview and possible other things.

Good going guys! Your efforts are much appreciated.

Hopefully this application will evolve to something like the one below in due course.



Source: http://www.navigadget.com/index.php/...avel-pilot-700

I tried compiling the project with what I assumed were that latest version of the classes but it failed. If one of you upload a working project with the latest changes I can try and build a setup.
So far, quality is very good using this application. A little high on CPU tough. Preview hangs sometimes but it seems to be CPU load related as Im running a 1.2GHz ultra low power celeron

Ok, here's the whole project with my changes. I'll keep it there for a few days. http://curioustech.home.insightbb.co...reUltimate.zip

I haven't done anything else with it. There's still something with the audio and I think it could be fixed the same way the video compressor is removed and added back but I didn't get into it much.

Using more CPU could be due to the way I have it set up to only use the capture pin on the video device. Normally 2 streams are set up for speed, and I'm just using one. Normally it's like this:
Capture -> compressor -> file
Preview -> Renderer
Mine takes it from capture -> gps -> tee -> compressor and renderer. I guess we could try it with 2 gps filters? I don't know if it would be faster or slower though.

Originally Posted by Curiosity

Using more CPU could be due to the way I have it set up to only use the capture pin on the video device. Normally 2 streams are set up for speed, and I'm just using one. Normally it's like this:
Capture -> compressor -> file
Preview -> Renderer
Mine takes it from capture -> gps -> tee -> compressor and renderer. I guess we could try it with 2 gps filters? I don't know if it would be faster or slower though.

As long as the end result is that the preview and the saved file look the same you could try following different paths internally for both

Originally Posted by Curiosity

Ok, here's the whole project with my changes. I'll keep it there for a few days. http://curioustech.home.insightbb.co...reUltimate.zip

Could you pls upload it again? Would like to use this one too, but found out í'm a few days too late..
Thanx!

Ok, it's back up.

Howdy people, first up Curiosity is a champ

Couple of issues that I'm trying to get my head around.

First is not that important, it comes up with 'Unspecified error' on startup. However it then runs fine. Any ideas whats causing it? I cruised through the .ini file but couldn't see any issues.

Second is the frame rate. It defaults at 15 instead of the saved 25fps? I notice (using cccp/ffdshow xvid encode) that if it does record at 15fps that it dies unexpectedly but doesn't warn that it has stopped and the audio begins to lag as well.

I've done a couple of recordings at 25fps and it didn't seem to have the problem. Any ideas why it keeps defaulting to 15fps?

Cheers guys great program with the GPS overlay!

EDIT: Are you able to run two instances of the program one for the front camera and one for the back?