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I have a very old video capture device (Dazzle DVC USB) hooked up to Windows7, and it works with the program that it came with just fine to create a MPEG2 file in a directory.
However, I want to stream what I am recording instead of saving it to a file. The best solution I can think of is playing the video file with VLC or some other program, then capturing the output with Procaster (from Livestream.com). Thus, I want to read a video file as it is being written, and Windows doesn't like that at all. Is there any way to bypass the warnings and read the file anyway? I don't need to do anything fancy like seeking, so is this possible/safe?
Otherwise, other methods that let me stream the feed while it is live that would work with my device, the Dazzle DVC (Digital Video Recorder). I can provide as much information about the device as a person might need.
1It's not very easy to do this under Windows. If the device's driver uses a standard interface, you should be able to "open" the device directly in VLC. Then you can stream and save it to disk at the same time using VLC. – billc.cn – 2011-11-01T04:06:14.297
Nope, VLC gave me some error that the device didn't accept certain parameters, otherwise I would do that... – VolatileRig – 2011-11-01T04:09:16.227
And you really can not use a different software to record from the DVR? Try http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16862782/AMCAP.EXE for example. Amcap will not allow you to stream, but it usually allows you to at least access the card if it is compatible with directshow. I heard though that the dazzle cards might just not be compatible with it..
– sinni800 – 2011-11-10T17:17:17.523