Hello

Could someone advise me how to stream video from my webcam to a specific port on UDP?
There is a guy named "Derek Molloy" who does good tutorials on that but he uses H264 Format and my camera doesn't support that .I don't know how to modify the code/commands for YUV (I need YUV) so I would appreciate some help.
Using his tutorials I managed to capture raw pictures/video to a file and then open them, which is good. But I would really like to get that UDP stream working.

I'm using v4l2 .

If this is not possible from v4l2 , is it possible with another program?
For testing purposed I'm using VLC media player configured to listen for a UDP stream and also a java program that I wrote that listens to a UDP socket , none of which seem to respond.

Thanks in advance

 

UDP is port.
H264 is format.

You send video in format X to UDP port Y.

 

I don't think you understood what I was trying to say.

a)My camera doesn't support H264
b)I need YUV format

The specific code that was offered was using some parameters that accepted h264 format . They don't work with YUYV.

 

Here is piece of software you might find interesting: http://www.drastic.tv/index.php?opt...catid=71:mediareactorlegacyversions&Itemid=95

It lets third party programs to understand YUV.

 

Mplayer/ffmpeg should be able to handle the conversion.
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/StreamingGuide

 

Thanks , but that doesn't really help me much because I'm very new to linux so I don't understand most of the things said in those articles.
I know the ffmpeg is a ..."thing" that does something with video but that's about it