mencoder for a webcam

[Mehmet Erol Sanliturk]

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 2:05 AM, Olivier <Olivier.Nicole at cs.ait.ac.th> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I used to have it working, but I cannot find how to get that working
> again:
>
> I have a webcam installed, webcamd running, and pwcview can show me the
> video.
>
> How can I use mencoder to capture and save the stream?
>
> I used to have something of the form:
>
> /usr/local/bin/mencoder tv:// -tv noaudio:fps=10 -nosound -ovc lavc
> -ofps 10 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=400 -o <filename> -really-quiet
>
> but it now complains that:
>
> tvi_bsdbt848: Unable to open bktr device. Error: No such file or directory
> tvi_bsdbt848: Unable to open tuner device. Error: No such file or directory
> tvi_bsdbt848: Unable to open dsp device. Error: Operation not supported
>
> So what is the secret command to get mencoder grab the video stream from
> the webcam?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Olivier
>
> --
> _______________________________________________
>
>

Please search

bktr device

in Google .


For example , see link :

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bktr&sektion=4


Perhaps some of links may be useful for you .


Mehmet Erol Sanliturk