From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Apr 17 8:24:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mail.uni-kl.de (mail.uni-kl.de [131.246.137.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1815437B43E for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 08:24:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from holger@eit.uni-kl.de) Received: from postamt.eit.uni-kl.de (root@postamt.eit.uni-kl.de [131.246.73.100]) by mail.uni-kl.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f3HFOYo04025; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:24:34 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from ernie.eit.uni-kl.de (fs.eit.uni-kl.de [131.246.12.176]) by postamt.eit.uni-kl.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA02410; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:24:35 +0200 Received: from ernie.eit.uni-kl.de ([131.246.12.176]) by ernie.eit.uni-kl.de (8.10.2/8.10.2/SuSE Linux 8.10.0-0.3) with ESMTP id f3HFOvi00305; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:24:57 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: ernie.eit.uni-kl.de: Host [131.246.12.176] claimed to be ernie.eit.uni-kl.de Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:24:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Holger Lamm To: Randall Hopper Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fxtv: Video grabbing patch In-Reply-To: <20010414214338.A9798@nc.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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