On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 06:42:11PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > Okay. > > Running m-a a-i qc-usb might have been easy, but it does not result in > an application that I can run.
no. it just builds the drivers. > > I still do not have an application that runs on Debian 4.0, that will > allow me to record video with sound, from the Logitech QuickCam > Communicate STX. I've lost track of the beginning of this thread, but on the assumption that the driver works and provides appropriate devices, there are a number of programs that would capture video. What have you tried? I suspect that at a minimum, ffmped and mendcoder could do it and there are surely others. > > So, I booted the laptop into Windows XP, and installed the software that > came with the webcam, and got that running, but the video files that > that creates, are only in the .wmv file format, and the only application > that I have on Debian 4.0, that can read .wmv files, is xine, and, > whilst that plays the sound, it does things to the video component, that > are like what I imagine an acid trip to be like; kind of like a "Lucy in > the sky with diamonds" kind of thing. > > If I cannot run the webcam with Debian 4.0, to record videoclips, does a > converter exist for Debian 4.0, that can convert .wmv files into .mpeg > files, so that the files cam be platform independent? I believe mencoder can do this. man mencoder. A
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