Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:19:15 +0700 (ICT) From: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> To: steve@sohara.org Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reccoding video for security application Message-ID: <200802180819.m1I8JFhv059087@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <20080215065341.61b31997.steve@sohara.org> References: <200802140853.m1E8r9Xe060292@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <20080214100027.52c7f2ef.steve@sohara.org> <200802150622.m1F6MV8m044126@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <20080215065341.61b31997.steve@sohara.org>
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Hi, > > > > 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. > > Mencode has so many options, I don't know how to run it. > > Most of them have to do with specifying the output format and > encodings (it does support rather a lot of them). > > Start with something like this > > mencoder tv:// -tv driver=bsdbt848:norm=PAL:input=0 -ovc lavc > -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=2400 -oac 'mp3lame' -lameopts br=128 > out.avi I make it work with: mencoder tv:// -tv driver=bsdbt848:noaudio:norm=NTSC:input=1 -nosound -o toto.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=400 Thanks. Now next question, is there a way to have the date and time added to the image? TIA, Olivier
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