From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 14 10:27:10 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50D8B16A46B for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:27:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from sohara.org (sohara.org [192.220.64.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C08F13C4F4 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:27:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: (qmail 32775 invoked by uid 16563); 14 Feb 2008 09:57:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO df1) ([127.0.0.1]) (envelope-sender ) by 127.0.0.1 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 14 Feb 2008 09:57:02 -0000 Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:00:27 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: Olivier Nicole Message-Id: <20080214100027.52c7f2ef.steve@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <200802140853.m1E8r9Xe060292@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <200802140853.m1E8r9Xe060292@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.2; i386-pc-dragonfly) X-Face: %]+HVL}K`P8>+8ZcY-WGHP6j@&mxMo9JH6_WdgIgUGH)JX/usO0%jy7T~IVgqjumD^OBqX, Kv^-GM6mlw(fI^$"QRKyZ$?xx/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reccoding video for security application X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:27:10 -0000 On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:53:09 +0700 (ICT) Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, > > I have a small system build around FreeBSD 6.3 that detects when the > door is open (I dismatled a mouse and use the mouse button as switch > to detect the door opening). > > I have a bktr848 video capture card in the machine and I would like to > reccord video and save it in a decent format (something that could > easily be played on most movie player on Windows and X, xvid, mpeg, > etc.) in the full 640x480 resolution. > > I have been playing around with fxtv and dtv and transcode and... Try ffmpeg - I used it as a VCR for a long time, mencoder should also work well and provides the very low CPU option of using nuv (Nuppelvideo) format recording. -- C:>WIN | Directable Mirror Arrays The computer obeys and wins. | A better way to focus the sun You lose and Bill collects. | licences available see | http://www.sohara.org/