man stream (Commandes) - captures an audio and (multiple) video stream(s)
NAME
stream - captures an audio and (multiple) video stream(s)
SYNOPSIS
stream [options] streams...
DESCRIPTION
Vstream is a collection of utilities for capturing reasonably high quality video from a v4l device (specifically configured for bttv). A simultaneous audio track is also captured.
The first utility - stream - captures an audio and (multiple) video stream(s). For highest performance, the video stream should be written to a raw partition(s).
OPTIONS
- -half
- only capture 1 of every 2 frames - reduces required bandwidth with little visible loss in quality (in my opinion).
- -halfx Xxdim Xydim
- capture half the frames to disk and half to an X window of width Xxdim and height Xydim (see BUGS).
- -start time
- the next argument, in the form hh:mm:ss:dd:mm:yyyy, is the time at which recording will start. Only the first three arguments are required. The remaining arguments will be taken from the current date/time.
- -end time
- time to stop recording. Same format as "-start".
- xdim
- width
- ydim
- height
- streams...
- One audio stream and max. 256 video streams are possible. Both types of the arguments are simply a file name (should be an empty file or a raw partition), the first argument will be the audio stream, the other will be video streams.
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Lenart Janos <ocsi@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU system (but may be used by others).