[Cialug] Video stream

[Josh More]

It's worth noting that there are malicious codecs out there that are
sometimes bundled with fake video files.  Most of them are for Windows or
OSX, but I have seen a few that target Linux and VLC.

Be careful.

-Josh

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 2:31 PM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> You need to know which codec it's using, and install that on your system.
>
> -dc
>
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 2:08 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
>
> > 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
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