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Date:      Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:26:03 -0600
From:      Pete McKenna <pmckenna@qwest.net>
To:        Protius <protius@bobdbob.com>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Video capture
Message-ID:  <20010308112603.A3684@otto.oss.qwest.net>
In-Reply-To: <200103080726.f287QWM34169@teryx.bobdbob.com>; from protius@bobdbob.com on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 02:26:32AM -0500
References:  <20010307000411.A41216@otto.oss.qwest.net> <200103080726.f287QWM34169@teryx.bobdbob.com>

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Thanks for clarifying that, 
One more question, Can arguments be given to select a channel
or frequency for the tuner part of the Bt card ?

Thanks     

Pete



On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 02:26:32AM -0500, Protius wrote:
>  
> Peter McKenna wrote:
> >thanks for posting this, I think I have it close to working, but am 
> >wonder how you told the BT8x8 card what input to use.
> >I can capture and it seems happy but I end up with a blue screen.
> >What input options are set by default ? and where are they.
> >I'm trying to capture from the s-video in mostly.
> 
> The default input is 0, which is composite in.  videocat takes a whole
> pile of arguments, specificly: 
> filename width height count brightness contrast input field
> 
> filename is where to put the video
> width and height are in pixels
> brightness and contrast are 0 to 255, where 127 is the middle of the range
> 
> input is:
> 0 = device 0
> 1 = device 1
> 2 = device 2
> 3 = device 3
> 4 = RGB
> 5 = svideo
> 
> and field is a flag, if there is an argument at all, it will capture only
> the even field only.
> 
> my normal capture command is:
> videocat somefile.ppm 352 240 57000 130 127 0 foo
> 
> Then you can pull individual frames out with getframe:
> getframe somefile.ppm 53100 1 | xv -
> 
> The numbers are the same as on getaudio, below.
> 
> getframe produces only grayscale images...  long story...
> 
> extract the audio with:
> getaudio somefile.ppm 100 1000 | someplaybackprogram
> 
> The first number is the frame to start on, the second number is how many
> frames of audio to extract.  (NTSC frames)  If you extract multiple images,
> the image data is just concatenated.
> 
> Or, make an mpeg stream with compressit:
> compressit somefile 100 53100
> 
> The first number is the start frame, the second number is the end frame.
> Note that there is no extension on the filename passed to compressit.
> 
> -Tommy     "Are you alright?"  "I am allergic to steel."
> protius@bobdbob.com
> KE4ILZ

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