Others are probably already aware of this, but we can always start out with like a web cam and use either Cheese (Gnome) or ffmpeg. Either can easily provide means to record from a variety of cameras, mostly web cams but could work with others I am sure.
Now recording and streaming is another matter. Not sure there is anything like pulse-audio for video. I am not aware of any ways to multiplex video to a couple different apps. Usually what ever the first app to use the hardware camera is, has a lock on that. Like you can't use Cheese and ffmpeg at the same time. Now ffmpeg can stream, it actually has its own server ffserver, so it might be capable of streaming and recording at the same time. I haven't ever tried that, though have messed around with ffserver. Otherwise thats probably going to be the hardest thing to resolve in Linux, streaming and recording. Unless the third party streaming solution provides means for recording as well. Then we just have to see about streaming. Which might be able to use ffmpeg's ffserver for that. If anyone is familiar with streaming video from Linux to any site, a few were mentioned in another thread, please speak up :) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Obsidian-Studios, Inc. http://www.obsidian-studios.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
