Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] capturing msn web cam traffic with wireshark.

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 17, 2007, at 5:41 PM, Wonkyun*^^* Lee wrote:

> I am trying to capture traffic using Msn messenger, espec. with web  
> cam.

You're trying to capture traffic with a webcam?  You mean by, for  
example, pointing a webcam at the screen while Wireshark is doing a  
live traffic capture, to display what Wireshark is showing? :-)

Or do you mean you're trying to capture network traffic being put onto  
the network by a webcam?

> Is there any way that i can capture video codec, or video traffic?
>
> some kind of frame rate or something..
>
> I also tried with Skype, but i cannot find the way to do it..

You can capture *any* sort of network traffic with Wireshark.

Whether Wireshark can *dissect* that traffic, and show it as anything  
other than raw hex data, is another matter.

And, even if it can dissect it, it won't display it as video.   
Wireshark's a network analyzer, not a video player, although some  
dissectors might support saving the contents of a video stream within  
a capture in some video format, just as it can save some VoIP traffic  
in an audio format.

What *exactly* is it you're trying to do here?