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Asked: 2012-07-11 03:11:11 +0800 CST

capturing video from webcam and saving to a file

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I am trying to capture video(alongwith audio) from a webcam.
I need to record the video and save it to a file,for further processing.
Would like to do it through CLI.

Any ideas how to do it using ffmpeg or gstreamer.

I am getting these errors: 

1.gstreamer:-  erroneous pipeline: no element "xvimagesink".  
2.ffmpeg   :-  unable to find suitable output format for video4linux2.

Any help is appreciated.

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  1. Best Answer

    Cheese webcam studio can record Video and take photo's with effects.

    As for cli recording, see if this will work 

    streamer -q -c /dev/video0 -f rgb24 -r 3 -t 00:30:00 -o ~/outfile.avi



    ffmpeg -f oss -i /dev/dsp -f video4linux2 -s 320x240 -i /dev/video0 out.mpg

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