[Cialug] Video stream

[David Champion]

Maybe write from your device to an AVI file, then read it?

>From that page:

$ midentify some_random.avi


-dc

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 3:11 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Jan 2017, David Champion wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> David,
>
> Much appreciated! Unfortunately it chokes on the device:
>
> lvl at Storm:/usr/share/mplayer (bash)
> $ ./midentify.sh /dev/video0
>
> Using mplayer directly DNW either:
>
> $ mplayer /dev/video0
> MPlayer -4.8 (C) 2000-2015 MPlayer Team
> mplayer: could not connect to socket
> mplayer: No such file or directory
> Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote
> control.
>
> Playing /dev/video0.
> libavformat version 57.25.100 (external)
>
>
> Exiting... (End of file)
>
> Thoughts??
>
>         Lee
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