Freydnot | Saturday, June 28, 2003 - 09:18 pm     I've used the RealTV software for windows in the past with the big brother feeds. I read it has been expanded to (soon?) include audio and video capture. I figured I would ask here in the computer stuff area... Is there a URL for RealTV developement? |
Freydnot | Saturday, June 28, 2003 - 11:34 pm     Following up my own question... http://www.geocities.com/realtvplayer/ But it doesn't look like its been updated recently. |
Arbustur | Sunday, June 29, 2003 - 04:08 pm     The software is still in development at this stage and I almost have the audio recording in place. I have it working, so that you can record with any valid ACM codec. The video capture is full of challenges that I never imagined, but I have a skeleton program that is capturing video but its very unstable at the moment. All of this is very challenging when you consider that this is all done in VB. Here is a screen shot for the recording interface. <See below> |
Arbustur | Sunday, June 29, 2003 - 04:21 pm     Ok, here it is:
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Freydnot | Monday, June 30, 2003 - 01:45 am     How does the video capture work? Is it your basic screen capture formula? Or are there some hooks into the realone guts? |
Arbustur | Monday, June 30, 2003 - 08:31 am     It is basically screen capturing at precisely timed intervals much like the automatic screen capture feature. But, the file is saved as an AVI using almost any video compression codec installed on your computer. The ones that I have successfully tested are the MPEG4 codecs which include all flavors of DivX and XviD. One side effect with this method of recording is that the client area of the screen is being captured, so it must stay in the foreground and no widows should overlap it. I should state that the system requirements will be quite high when recording audio and video at the same time. |
Ryn | Tuesday, July 08, 2003 - 11:24 am     Looks very cool Arbustur I might toss out my Hypercam and give it a try |
Arbustur | Tuesday, July 08, 2003 - 03:23 pm     Ok, I just made last years version of the player available and also updated the reg file with this years direct links. Don't be confused that the filename is bb3usa.reg. The new version with recording features will not be available for another week or two. In the meantime you can still do screen capturing with the old version. |
Freydnot | Tuesday, July 08, 2003 - 04:50 pm     If you are installing realTV on a dual processor machine, be sure to download the latest version of WinPCap (currently 3.01alpha). The old 2.3 version doesn't support SMP. Let the games begin  |
Wolf | Tuesday, July 08, 2003 - 04:55 pm     Thank you Arbustur!! This program rocked so much last year and I got it up and running again... SO much nicer than plain ol' RealOne. |
Misslibra | Tuesday, July 08, 2003 - 06:11 pm     Help !! I keep getting a illegal operation when playing my real player. This never happen before why now ?  |
Draheid | Tuesday, July 08, 2003 - 06:36 pm     MissL: You may need to reinstall it. Seems to be a lot of that 'going around' this year. |
Misslibra | Tuesday, July 08, 2003 - 06:40 pm     Yea I just uninstalled it and reinstalled it then rebooted my computer. Was doing good until I click on their link for BB. |
Draheid | Tuesday, July 08, 2003 - 06:51 pm     MissL: Try this link: Click Here for older versions. |
Halfunit | Tuesday, July 08, 2003 - 06:55 pm     <Halfunit notices that she and Dra posted the same link at the same time in different folders.... spooky, eh? Or would that be unique ??> |
Misslibra | Tuesday, July 08, 2003 - 07:02 pm     Thank you Draheid for responding and trying to help me I got it to work some how. |
Arbustur | Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 12:13 am     The new home page for the RealTV Player is now http://www.geocities.com/arbustur/. I have not been able to remember my password for the old site. Doh! So, if you sent any email to the realtvplayer@yahoo.com address, I have not been able to read it! |
Wolf | Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 05:49 pm     I created 4 links for RealTV that will stream two feeds simultaneously. Feeds 1&2, 1&3, 2&4, and 3&4. I exported the registry key, and put it online. If anyone wants it, CLICK HERE to download it. When the feeds load up, remember to click "Original Size" in the "View" menu to size the window accordingly. Enjoy!  |
Wolf | Sunday, July 20, 2003 - 01:37 am     Hey Arbustur, any word on the new release with video/audio capturing?? |
Arbustur | Sunday, July 20, 2003 - 11:49 am     Wolf, the audio recording is in place, but the video will have to wait for the moment. Recently, I was able to solve the problem of controlling the volume on multiple feeds, so that put me back almost a week! It was a pain to implement and its not perfect, but it is working great. Also, I am making changes to the way screen captures are managed. As you can see, I went off on a tangent with all the changes, so it could be another week before the release. |
Freydnot | Sunday, July 20, 2003 - 05:58 pm     Can't wait! Glad to hear you got the multi feed mute thing worked out. Was it something new they added to SMIL, or was it something we all missed? |
Arbustur | Sunday, July 20, 2003 - 06:48 pm     Freydnot, multi clips are now multiple instances of a separate application that I "glue" together in the main appplication. SMIL is used in each separate instance to implement the volume/mute control. I am still looking for a %100 SMIL solution, but this will do for now. |
Arbustur | Wednesday, July 30, 2003 - 09:52 am     A new reg file with the new direct links is available on the RealTV site. The links have changed from: rtsp://start.real.com/rd?pid=bb4_live&url=cam1_80.rm to rtsp://start.real.com/rd?pid=bb4_83_live&url=cam1_80.rm Notice the addition of _83. |
Wolf | Wednesday, July 30, 2003 - 10:53 am     I've also updated mine, including the multi-clips as I posted 5 msgs up. The link is in that msg to download 'em. BTW ... Arbustur -- ALWAYS appreciative of your work on RTVP!!!! One very satisfied 'end-user'. |
Joni | Tuesday, August 05, 2003 - 03:38 pm     I tried to download and install this but it kept telling me that there was a file missing, then I downloadded the basic files too and still no success.. |