Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:24:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Holger Lamm <holger@eit.uni-kl.de> To: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@nc.rr.com> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fxtv: Video grabbing patch Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0104171631330.32553-100000@ernie.eit.uni-kl.de> In-Reply-To: <20010414214338.A9798@nc.rr.com>
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On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Randall Hopper wrote: > Holger Lamm: > | > |I'm just experimenting with video grabbing by fxtv. > |Seems that mpegaudio doesn't like sox's AIFF output: > |(apart from another mpegaudio problem I reported to their maintainer): > See Appendix A of: > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fxtv/README Aah! Let's try that. > [mpeg-musicin port] I will say that patch-ab looks pretty fishy: > > +CFLAGS += -DTABLES_PATH=\"${PREFIX}/share/mepgaudio/tables\" > ^^^^ > ? Huh That is what I called "another problem I reported to their maintainer". > |The scripts mentions the sox parameters "-s -w" as "Hack to force 16-bit > |signed (PCM driver)", but it seems that it doesn't work. > |Ever had problems with that? > > How do you mean doesn't work. That it does not generate output mpeg_musicin likes. > Did you have to remove -s -w in addition to > making the WAV change, or does it work with the -s -w in there and the WAV > change? I only changed to WAV, yes. > ...and maybe there's a better MPEG video encoder than mpeg_encode (?). MPEG I has acceptable quality for low processor speed, although mpeg_encode is not very quick (ffmpeg captures MPEG-I on the fly, unfortunately only under Linux.) For offline capture and archieving purpose, maybe avifile would be nice, but it does not read raw frames.. Holger To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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