[Cialug] Video stream

[David Champion]

Here's a method to find what codecs you need, using mplayer and midentify:

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/29101/obtain-avi-file-info-from-command-line

-dc


On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Josh More <jmore at starmind.org> wrote:

> 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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