On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 5:03 AM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 07:36:16AM -0400, Michael Mol wrote >> On Oct 5, 2012 3:23 AM, "Walter Dnes" <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: >> > >> > I'm getting really ambitious with my 3-year-old Acer netbook, now that >> > open source Poulsbo video support exists. After tweaking the kernel, >> > I've got the webcam+mic recording with the command... >> >> Check out 'uvcview'. > > I assume you meant luvcview. It works for monitoring, but I can't > figure out how to record properly...
Actually, it looks like the one I'm accustomed to is media-video/guvcview. I haven't played with media-video/luvcview > > 1) It outputs a raw stream file (named "stream.raw") which mplayer can't > figure out how to play. > > 2) How do I get it to record audio too? > > I wouldn't mind transcoding the raw output, if I could get sound in > there. ffmpeg can record mpeg4 video plus mp3 sound. The video has > blocky artifacts when there's motion on the screen. I tried ffmpeg with > x264 codec, but the cpu is simply not up to it. I used cpufreq-utils to > push both cores to their max speed (1.3 ghz) but it didn't help. When I last used guvcview, it muxed both audio and video into an appropriate container format for me, but it was all very configurable. I do recall I went with MJPEG for a video codec.[1] I realize you're not fond of GNOME, but guvcview doesn't require pulling in all of gnome. Though looking at it now, it may require pulseaudio. I haven't tried luvcview, sorry. [1] This video was recorded with guvcview, and then uploaded as-is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kul0eGILCI4 -- :wq
