Hi,

Maybe you can try FFmmpeg, see here.

2011/3/26 Ian Malone <ibmalone@gmail.com>


Hi,



I'm trying to record from a webcam and getting terrible performance

from Cheese and problematic performance from VLC. Is anyone able to

either tell me how to get one of them working properly or suggest

another app that will work? Details (hardware at bottom)



Cheese cheese-2.30.1-1.fc13.x86_64, nice, simple to use. Recording

performance is awful. The booth framerate is fine, but as soon as I

start recording it drops dramatically (going from frames per second to

seconds per frame). VLC's ability to encode to the same target -

Theora/Vorbis (but see below) and the fact I can do this under windows

with the movie maker suggest a Cheese problem. Resolution is at

640x480 (which is what VLC and move maker are using), dropping to

355x288 is okay. This cheese bug seems to be related

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=564957 but not resolved.

Anyone using F14 with good performance for cheese video recording?



VLC vlc-1.1.7-1.fc13.x86_64. Less friendly, for a start I haven't been

able to get it to capture by specifying devices in the capture dialog.

If I just open capture and hit play I get video and sound. I can use

/dev/video0 as the video input and after a bit of trial and error

(using debug mode I realise it was using alsa device names) pulse for

the audio device, but if I attempt to use the capture device advance

options (with or without specifying /dev/video0):

Your input can't be opened:

VLC is unable to open the MRL 'v4l2://'. Check the log for details.



~/.xsession-errors has this:

[0x7f2dfc0044e0] v4l2 demux error: invalid tuner -1.

[0x7f2dfc008240] v4l2 access error: invalid tuner -1.

[0x7f2e08008590] main input error: open of `v4l2://' failed: (null)



(Or tuner 0 which is what it defaults to, tried -1 as this appears to

be auto for other params)



But capturing to theora/vorbis results in video and audio playing at

different speeds, the default (which seems to be the ALSA hw device)

has video faster than audio, capturing to the default (mp4) or webm is

okay, using pulse and /dev/video0 webm video is slower than audio...

and so on. This most successful approach so far is to open the device

in play mode, use the 'advanced controls' record button and capture

uncompressed a/v to avi the transcode later. This would be sort of

endurable, but it would be nice to record transcoded and be able to

adjust the recorded size (camera can go up to 1280x720). I'd also like

to be able record both soundcard and webcam audio and video, but it

looks like that will never happen with Cheese and may be difficult

with VLC, so I may have to accept recording one separately and syncing

up later.



AMD Athlon X2 5000+ cpu, 2GB RAM



Logitech C270HD cam:

uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device <unnamed> (046d:0825)

input: UVC Camera (046d:0825) as

/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.1/usb1/1-6/1-6:1.0/input/input5

usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo



Thanks for your time,

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> 2011/3/26 Ian Malone <ibmalone@gmail.com>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to record from a webcam and getting terrible performance
>> from Cheese and problematic performance from VLC. Is anyone able to
>> either tell me how to get one of them working properly or suggest
>> another app that will work? Details (hardware at bottom)
>>

On 26 March 2011 15:14, Guohua Tang <tgh728@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Maybe you can try FFmmpeg, see here.
>

Thanks, with a bit of tweaking I'm able to record with ffmpeg, though
it's a pity this means I can't preview what's being recorded. However
I'm a bit greedy and if I have to use the command line to be able to
do this then I'd also like to figure out how to record synchronised
sound from different sources. Anyone able to suggest how that might be
done? Using sox and piping into ffmpeg doesn't work, video gets out of
sync (also I've got some sox related problem about different rates).

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On 02/04/11 19:15, Ian Malone wrote:
>
> Thanks, with a bit of tweaking I'm able to record with ffmpeg, though
> it's a pity this means I can't preview what's being recorded. However
> I'm a bit greedy and if I have to use the command line to be able to
> do this then I'd also like to figure out how to record synchronised
> sound from different sources. Anyone able to suggest how that might be
> done? Using sox and piping into ffmpeg doesn't work, video gets out of
> sync (also I've got some sox related problem about different rates).
>
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"record with ffmpeg" How do you do this? Is there an
instruction/documentation? I have a couple of IP cameras and would
like to be able to record a film clip from them occasionally.
Usually just view them with VLC.

Bob


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Hi,

My Operating System teacher used FFmmpeg to record his lectures (both video and audio). He wrote a blog post (in Chinese) about how to do it. Hope the link will help you.

http://translate.google.com.hk/translate?hl=zh-CN&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=http://blog.sunner.cn/2010/09/screencast-lecture-in-linux/



2011/4/3 Ian Malone <ibmalone@gmail.com>


> 2011/3/26 Ian Malone <ibmalone@gmail.com>

>>

>> Hi,

>>

>> I'm trying to record from a webcam and getting terrible performance

>> from Cheese and problematic performance from VLC. Is anyone able to

>> either tell me how to get one of them working properly or suggest

>> another app that will work? Details (hardware at bottom)

>>



On 26 March 2011 15:14, Guohua Tang <tgh728@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,

>

> Maybe you can try FFmmpeg, see here.

>



Thanks, with a bit of tweaking I'm able to record with ffmpeg, though

it's a pity this means I can't preview what's being recorded. However

I'm a bit greedy and if I have to use the command line to be able to

do this then I'd also like to figure out how to record synchronised

sound from different sources. Anyone able to suggest how that might be

done? Using sox and piping into ffmpeg doesn't work, video gets out of

sync (also I've got some sox related problem about different rates).



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On 3 April 2011 00:33, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin@wildblue.net> wrote:
> On 02/04/11 19:15, Ian Malone wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, with a bit of tweaking I'm able to record with ffmpeg, though
>> it's a pity this means I can't preview what's being recorded. However
>> I'm a bit greedy and if I have to use the command line to be able to
>> do this then I'd also like to figure out how to record synchronised
>> sound from different sources. Anyone able to suggest how that might be
>> done? Using sox and piping into ffmpeg doesn't work, video gets out of
>> sync (also I've got some sox related problem about different rates).
>>

>
> * *"record with ffmpeg" * How do you do this? Is there an
> * *instruction/documentation? I have a couple of IP cameras and would
> * *like to be able to record a film clip from them occasionally.
> * *Usually just view them with VLC.
>

This is with an attached webcam, not sure what you need for IP cameras:

ffmpeg -f alsa -ac 2 -i pulse -f video4linux2 -s 800x600 -r 15 -i
/dev/video0 -acodec pcm_s16le -vcodec libx264 -vpre
lossless_ultrafast -threads 0 webcam.avi

I suspect you'd drop the audio codec options and then -acodec null
maybe. Of course if you're viewing them with VLC then you can just use
the record button you get with View|Advanced Controls enabled.

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On 03/04/11 17:13, Ian Malone wrote:
>
> This is with an attached webcam, not sure what you need for IP cameras:
>
> ffmpeg -f alsa -ac 2 -i pulse -f video4linux2 -s 800x600 -r 15 -i
> /dev/video0 -acodec pcm_s16le -vcodec libx264 -vpre
> lossless_ultrafast -threads 0 webcam.avi
>
> I suspect you'd drop the audio codec options and then -acodec null
> maybe. Of course if you're viewing them with VLC then you can just use
> the record button you get with View|Advanced Controls enabled.

Yes there is no /dev/video0 with the "IP" cameras. I don't need
the sound. I've saved this information and will experiment with
it later.

I have never found a scheme for recording a video stream from
VLC, don't see "View|Advanced Controls" and a record setting. I
may be missing something.

Thanks.

Bob


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On 4 April 2011 19:12, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin@wildblue.net> wrote:
> On 03/04/11 17:13, Ian Malone wrote:
>>
>> This is with an attached webcam, not sure what you need for IP cameras:
>>


>
> * * * I have never found a scheme for recording a video stream from
> * * * VLC, don't see "View|Advanced Controls" and a record setting. I
> * * * may be missing something.
>

That's odd. Maybe a different version? I'm running
vlc-1.1.7-1.fc13.x86_64, then selecting the advanced controls checkbox
from the view drop-down menu next to 'help'. Another row of buttons
then appears above the normal play controls.

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On 04/04/11 16:10, Ian Malone wrote:
> On 4 April 2011 19:12, Bob Goodwin<bobgoodwin@wildblue.net> wrote:
>
>> I have never found a scheme for recording a video stream from
>> VLC, don't see "View|Advanced Controls" and a record setting. I
>> may be missing something.
>>
> That's odd. Maybe a different version? I'm running
> vlc-1.1.7-1.fc13.x86_64, then selecting the advanced controls checkbox
> from the view drop-down menu next to 'help'. Another row of buttons
> then appears above the normal play controls.


I had selected a simpler interface to save space, "Custom"
instead of "Native" which did not display those buttons you
refer to. Changing that I probably see what you see, still
haven't been able to record a video stream from an IP camera or
a web cam. Googling brings up stuff that is different than what
I have here, probably due to an evolving application, and has
not been of much help.

It's not important enough to warrant a lot of effort, my
interest was aroused by your earlier comment since I had looked
into this before. I'll chip away at it when I have nothing
better to do.

Thanks.

Bob


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Guohua Tang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Maybe you can try FFmmpeg, see here
> <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1392026>.
>
Thank you, even though I've done screen and webcam capture before, that's a nice
document to have to use as a refresher or to give people with similar questions.

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