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Anyone hear of H.264 coming to linux? Any plans to integrate that into ZM? I hear that compression time is MUCH better than mpeg, but I'm not exactly sure if ZM can support this...

thats something that ffmpeg would handle in zm, but ffmpeg isnt fully finished in 264 yet. plus the hype seems to be about flash movies at the moment, see main 1.2x forum

what about Dirac in future?

jameswilson wrote:thats something that ffmpeg would handle in zm, but ffmpeg isnt fully finished in 264 yet. plus the hype seems to be about flash movies at the moment, see main 1.2x forum

Has anything changed since then in terms of H.264?

There is a Provideo PV-260 card which outputs H.264 & Ogg Vorbis.
They claim to support Linux, but I could not find any real info on this.
Other nice features of the card are are 704x480 and "watermark support"
(do they mean hardware watermarking on the chip? that would be nice!)
Has anybody tried this card? The links are (sellers call it differently but
appearance suggests it is the same card):

http://www.provideo.com.tw/PV260.htm
http://www.fortune3.com/~comp70627/Fram ... Input.html
http://www.simplyautomate.co.uk/product ... rodid=6378
http://www.anko-tech.com/products/h264card.htm

There is also another product which claims to support Linux closed-source:
http://www.dspr.com/www/products/video/ ... ncoder.htm

Thanks,
Alex

zm currently gets its images via bttv and this is a straight bitmap. This bitmap is then analysed for motion, time stamped etc. Then finaly written to disk. We currently can convert these saved jpegs into mpegs (or whatever ffmpeg can do) or stream the same. If images were hardware watermarked, we would need the hardware to do the above as any modifying of the images would break the watermarking. Im not sure the current status of h264 and ffmpeg but you could convert all your current jpegs to h264 if ffmpeg supports it but you will lose an awful lot of featues in the process.

are there any updates on capturing h.264 streams or has the interest died down?