Try mp1e. It outputs to mpeg. You can recompress by using the quick and dirty video tools though. If you need to get it in another format, I believe that Justin Shoeman has hacked together an mpeg to quicktime config file. I am not sure about avi. Personally, I prefer mpeg since everyone and their brothers can play it, it can be compressed in a standard way, and well, it just plain rocks. Thanks, Steve PS Also, install BTTV2 if you have video sync problems. You can find it at Sourceforge (plug) on Justins page. Have fun! -----Original Message----- From: Andrew A. Chen To: Tony Robinson Cc: video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx Sent: 01/05/2001 11:10 AM Subject: streamer >I'm now running 2.4.0 and it is stable, no oops yet in the first two >hours of recording. I'll look at bttv2 (which I take is the BTTV V4L2 >driver) and I take it I'll discover what deviceX is in the process... >Linux 2.4.0 is a much cleaner install than 2.2.18 was, I'm waiting for >this to fall over, at the moment it occasionally gets 4 frames behind, >that is all. >while true ; do > AVI=`date '+/home/chomp0/%H%M_%d%h%y.avi'` > nice -n -10 streamer -r 10 -t 9000 -o $AVI -f mjpeg -F mono16 -R 16000 >done >So, what's the biggest project in terms of number of TV channels and >hours of archive that anyone'll own up to on this list??? How does that streamer command work for you at all, if you're losing frames? If you lose frames, the audio/video drop out of sync, which makes that file somewhat useless, no? I use this, and I constantly get pages and pages of 4-8 frames lost. I've even tried to increase the buffer size in the btt driver. streamer -r 29.97 -t 9000 -o /mnt/media/foo.avi -j 60 -f mjpeg -F stereo -R 8000 I just end up with pages and pages of this: rate: video is 8 frames behind rate: video is 8 frames behind rate: video is 7 frames behind rate: video is 7 frames behind This is a celeron 600 with 128MB RAM on an Intel D815EEAL board, hooked up to a UDMA/100 40GB drive... Am I running low on cpu speed, memory size, drive speed, or something else? I really want to get this to work. The key for me is getting ~320x240 at 29.97fps... Thanks. -a _______________________________________________ Video4linux-list mailing list Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
