[clug] USB webcam video capture

[Andrew Janke]

On 27/03/2015 5:56 PM, "Peter Barker" <pbarker at barker.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
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> On Fri, 27 Mar 2015, Andrew Janke wrote:
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>> Anyone happen to have done this successfully and have a magic C/L
>> incantation for me? I'm attempting to use vlc but the arguments seem
>> even closer to line noise than what I can achieve in perl...
>>
>> I figure something like this should work:
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>>   vlc v4l2:///dev/video1 --sout <magical incantations>out.avi
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> cvlc v4l2:///dev/video0 --sout
'#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,acodec=mpga,vb=800,ab=128,deinterlace}:file{dst=/tmp/fred.mp4}'
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> Give-or-take half a million options.

thanks, I'll give it a shot. I'm not recording audio, So can I drop the
acodec bit?

>>   crw-rw-rw+
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> Well, that would be a udev issue.  Which distribution?

Ubuntu 14.04

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