"Lee Hock Nang, Don" wrote: > > Hi guys, > > I am all new to this video capturing thing. > > I have tried my hands on streamer and ffmpeg to captured video sequences. > Is there other software that I could get my hands dirty on? Which encoding format would you recommend - - - mpeg1, 2 avi (divX) or some others. > > I need something that is fast and the output format can be play in like xine, xmovie or some commom player. > > I am all open to suggestion. > > Don There are plenty of format converters around, so I will assume that any of the following are OK. 1) (my usual plug) NVrec: http://www.ee.up.ac.za/~justin/v4l2 2) mp1e: http://zapping.sf.net/ (look in downlaods) 3) NuppelVideo: http://www.freshmeat.net/projects/nuppelvideo/ 4) qtvidcap (part of avifile): http://divx.euro.ru/ 5) realproducer: http://www.real.com/ 6) mainactor: http://www.mainconcept.com/ 7) ... can't remember ... any more out there? *NOTE: I wrote down the URLs from memory, so there may be mistakes (but you can find the programs using google). *NOTE: I wrote NVrec because none of the others worked well for me. -justin
