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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/fwcontrol/fwcontrol.8')
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1 files changed, 57 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/fwcontrol/fwcontrol.8 b/usr.sbin/fwcontrol/fwcontrol.8 index 6262565..a935317 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/fwcontrol/fwcontrol.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/fwcontrol/fwcontrol.8 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd December 14, 2004 +.Dd October 24, 2006 .Dt FWCONTROL 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ .Op Fl l Ar file .Op Fl g Ar gap_count .Op Fl b Ar pri_req +.Op Fl M Ar mode .Op Fl R Ar filename .Op Fl S Ar filename .Op Fl m Ar EUI64 | hostname @@ -84,8 +85,18 @@ by phy_config packet. Set the .Dv PRIORITY_BUDGET register on all supported nodes. +.It Fl M Ar mode +Explicitly specify either +.Ar dv +or +.Ar mpeg +mode for the incoming stream. +Only meaningful in case of and must preceed the +.Fl R +option. If not specified, the program will try to guess. If you get +an error complaining about "format 0x20", try to force the "mpeg" mode. .It Fl R Ar filename -Receive DV stream and dump it to a file. +Receive DV or MPEG TS stream and dump it to a file. Use Ctrl-C to stop the receiving. Some DV cameras seem not to send the stream if a bus manager exits. If you cannot get the stream, try the following commands: @@ -100,7 +111,14 @@ It can be handled by .Nm libdv in the .Fx -Ports Collection. +Ports Collection. Resulting MPEG TS stream can be played and sent over a +network using the VideoLAN +.Nm vlc +tool in the +.Fx +Ports Collection. The stream can be piped directly to +.Nm vlc, +see EXAMPLES. .It Fl S Ar filename Send a DV file as isochronous stream. .It Fl m Ar EUI64 | hostname @@ -117,7 +135,7 @@ Each DV frame has a fixed size and it is easy to edit the frame order. .Pp .Dl "fwcontrol -R original.dv" .Pp -Receive stream. +Receive a DV stream with DV camera attached. .Pp .Dl "dd if=original.dv of=first.dv bs=120000 count=30" .Pp @@ -135,12 +153,42 @@ For PAL, replace .Dq Li bs=120000 with .Dq Li bs=144000 . +.Pp +.Dl "fwcontrol -R file.m2t +.Pp +Receive an MPEG TS stream from a camera producing MPEG transport stream. This +has been tested with SONY HDR-FX1E camera that produces HD MPEG-2 stream at +25 Mbps bandwidth. +.Pp +To send the stream from the camera over the network using TCP (which supprisingly works better with vlc), you can use +.Dl "fwcontrol -R - | nc 192.168.10.11 9000 +with +.Nm netcat +from ports and to receive the stream, use +.Dl nc -l -p 9000 | vlc - +.Pp +To netcast via UDP, you need to use +.Nm buffer +program from ports, since vlc is not fast enough to read UDP packets from +buffers and thus it experiences dropouts when run directly. The sending side +can use +.Dl "fwcontrol -R - | nc 192.168.10.11 9000 +and to receive the stream, use +.Dl nc -l -u -p 9000 | buffer -s 10k -b 1000 -m 20m -p 5 | vlc - +.Pp + +.Pp +For more information on how to work with +.Nm vlc +see its docs. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr firewire 4 , .Xr fwe 4 , .Xr fwip 4 , .Xr fwohci 4 , -.Xr sbp 4 +.Xr sbp 4 , +.Xr mplayer 1 , +.Xr vlc 1 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm @@ -148,5 +196,9 @@ utility first appeared in .Fx 5.0 . .Sh AUTHORS .An Hidetoshi Shimokawa Aq simokawa@FreeBSD.org +.An Petr Holub Aq hopet@ics.muni.cz +- MPEG TS mode. .Sh BUGS This utility is still under development and provided for debugging purposes. +Especially MPEG TS reception support is very rudimental and supports only +high-bandwidth MPEG-2 streams (fn field in CIP header equals 3). |
