[Cialug] Video stream

[Andrew Denner]

Just a reminder that avi is a container and can contain various different
codecs that VLC may or may not fully understand.

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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