[xawtv and webcam looping]

[David J Patrick]

GDHough wrote:

>On Monday 22 December 2003 11:08, David J Patrick wrote:
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>>Have you considered http://gspy.sourceforge.net/ ?
>>gspy is designed for webcam based security and may offer fewer headaches
>>YMMV
>>djp
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>This looks worth a test run. I am curious as to how it builds the MPEG's. I 
>would like a format playable on winboxes. The way I make the movies now will 
>only work with mplayer on Linux. Example from man mencoder:
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>mencoder \*jpeg -mf on:fps=25 -o output.avi -ovc lavrc
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>...will put all the jpeg's in current directory into a single avi. Only thing 
>is it isn't very 'seekable' (hourly only) I ain't sure yet how to use :vhq: 
>and keyint= /etc.
>
>The odds of me catching a bike thief are slim compared to the risk I might 
>learn something useful about my Linuxes.
>
>Thanks,
>farmer6re9
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One of the cool things is that the image stream (video) is comprised of
only those frames that were different from the previous frame (motion)
resulting in surprisingly small files.
One less-than-cool thing is the seeming inactivity of the app,
with nothing in the changelog for over a year..
djp

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