Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 15:05:15 -0600 From: Sergey Manucharian <sm@ara-ler.com> To: questions@freebsd.org, Olivier <Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th> Subject: Re: mencoder for a webcam Message-ID: <20161031210514.GC12154@debian.ara-ler.com> In-Reply-To: <wu7zimjw4hc.fsf@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <wu7zimjw4hc.fsf@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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Excerpts from Olivier's message from Wed 05-Oct-16 16:05: > I used to have it working, but I cannot find how to get that working > again: > > I have a webcam installed, webcamd running, and pwcview can show me the > video. > > How can I use mencoder to capture and save the stream? > > I used to have something of the form: > > /usr/local/bin/mencoder tv:// -tv noaudio:fps=10 -nosound -ovc lavc > -ofps 10 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=400 -o <filename> -really-quiet Have you tried ffmpeg instead? I used to use mencoder much, but after having many issues with it, switched to ffmpeg. This example works fine for me: $ ffmpeg -f v4l2 -framerate 25 -video_size 640x480 -i /dev/video0 output.mkv -- Sergey
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