[Cialug] Video stream

[L. V. Lammert]

On Mon, 16 Jan 2017, Scott Yates wrote:

> Don't most of these kinds of devices have chips built in to do the encoding
> for them?  I seem to remember reading that most of them just deliver the
> compressed stream.
>
Yep! The docs say the camera outputs AVI, .. VLC is supposed to play AVI,
but VLC chokes - all I can get are random high-resolution stills.

Interesting that there is no VLC option to capture AVI, .. may need a
different way. (Will try guvcview, but there does not appear to be a
package for SuSE.)

	Thanks!

	Lee