This showed up today on apps.kde.com (I know), http://apps.kde.com/nf/2/info/vid/5779 It's qt3-based, not really KDE-based. It's gotten good reviews. I have no experience with it, web cams, or USB. I'm just throwin' it out ther cuz you asked...
Tim On Sunday 28 April 2002 06:53 pm, Net Llama! wrote: > Keith (or anyone else who's played with video-capture stuff under Linux), > I've got linux-video-studio compiled, and running, however it doesn't > want to cooperate with my camera. I see a worthless lavrec error that > says "Invalid option" and nothing more. > > My goal right now is to find an app that will allow me to capture the > videostream from my camera, while i watch what its capturing. > > -L > > Keith Antoine wrote: > > On Sunday 21 April 2002 02:44, you wrote: > > > > Ahh, this is where I am at the moment, so maybe I can return the favour. > > I have been using a pinnacle Rave pro and started with Streamer that > > comes with Xawtv, rapidly gave this the flick as its VERY limitted and am > > now using the mjpegtools lavrec to record, far more flexible. BTW the > > linuxvideoStudio that I am in troublw with is gui for mjpegtools. Most of > > the software defaults to an assumption that you have a mjpeg card, so I > > have to tell it : > > > > lavrec -f a -n 40 -i t -g 352x288 -q 80 -s -l 80 -R l > > --software-encoding /backup/movies/test.avi > > > > Withe the tools one can also tell it to record from line in, iT tells it > > to look for tuner input. I got mine working for the first time properly > > last night with the above script. No dropped frames and clean audio. > > > > So what software are you using for capture, there are many out there and > > over the past 4 months I have used most of them., even mainactor will do > > a good capture. There is another bttv style prog for cards too called > > Taztv which might do the camera too. I believe that most capture software > > will work with cameras if they follow the bttv std. > > > > When I have finished and can capture from a gui and then edit and > > play with the reults, put it down to a cdr and watch it on either > > computer or DVD player then I'll be doing a complete SxS, once again. -- Caldera eWorkstation 3.1, kernel 2.4.18, KDE 3.0 from source, Xfree86 4.1.0 4:00pm up 3 days, 19:50, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 It's what you learn AFTER you know it all that counts _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
