Comment 87 for bug 6290

Kino isn't the only important one that is broken by a lack of a thoughtful fix.

VLC is also affected for people like myself that NEED to be able to stream LIVE video from a professional DV camera over a wireless network, and finally export it several miles away at a television transmitter site for our viewers to watch.

This morning I was supposed to broadcast a parade from 5 miles away... I started on this problem at 4AM and missed the 9AM parade start.

Just because a person CAN kill others with an automobile does not mean we should all have our cars taken away for everyone else's safety.... and along the same lines raw1394 access that WAS working perfect before, should be allowed back.

Instead give users a security panel where they can check a box to disable raw1394 if they have no use for it, and they can leave it unchecked if they NEED full access.

I am writing this post because there is little else I can do, but I had to do SOMETHING.... My job at a television station depends on my being able to live stream an 8Mb/s stream from a DV camera any time there is a parade, breaking news story, or other reason to require high quality live video to be transmitted from all points across town...

Our station does not have the $300,000 for a microwave truck and astronomical yearly fees for the satellite link... I am forced to use 2 watt radios on empty 802.11 channels, employing 4 degree beam width mesh antennas, to avoid disrupting other people's wireless connections. There's no way our viewers would stand for USB web cam video without laughing us off the air.

I can technically do it in Windows... but Windows is not stable enough to trust for parade, rodeo, job fairs, auto racing, and other long duration live broadcasts.

Please don't break my ability to stream high quality video with VLC running on a laptop in a backpack for a 20Lb solution that includes the camera and everything in a portable package....

Or I should say, it's already broken... please return the functionality removed....

If the VLC team needs to help work out a suitable driver, please do work with them... I am pretty sure they are open to assistance making this work as well.

Thank you for your time,
Eric