On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:05:11PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 02:21:13AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > >> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:58:15 -0700 > >> From: Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> > >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >> Subject: Re: Using Logitech Quickcam on Debian 4.0 > >> > >> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 06:42:11PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > >> > >>> Okay. > >>> > >>> Running m-a a-i qc-usb might have been easy, but it does not result in > >>> an application that I can run. > >> > >> no. it just builds the drivers. > >> > >>> > >>> I still do not have an application that runs on Debian 4.0, that will > >>> allow me to record video with sound, from the Logitech QuickCam > >>> Communicate STX. > >> > >> I've lost track of the beginning of this thread, but on the assumption > >> that the driver works and provides appropriate devices, there are a > >> number of programs that would capture video. What have you tried? I > >> suspect that at a minimum, ffmped and mendcoder could do it and there > >> are surely others. > ... > >>> does a > >>> converter exist for Debian 4.0, that can convert .wmv files into .mpeg > >>> files, so that the files cam be platform independent? > >> > >> I believe mencoder can do this. man mencoder. > >> maybe have a look at luvcview > > > > > Aah, yes, but the problem, having found mencoder, is in trying to > > install it. > > > > I found a package of it, and downloaded it, and the following show > > attempts to install it. > > > > I had to run Synaptic, to repair my system, and mencoder got broken, and > > apparently, some other packages got removed or something, and had to be > > reinstalled due to the installation having failed. > > > > dpkg -i mencoder_1.0-rc1svn20070225-0.3etch1_i386.deb > > umm... why are you manually installing mencoder? You should use your > package manager to install it. mencoder is available from the regular > apt repos. you may have better luck though with the mencoder from Um, from memory it is at http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ and afiak they are not official deb repo's > debian-multimedia as it will have some of the non-free stuff. It's > been a while though since I compared mencoder versions, so that's old > info. > > A -- While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. -- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven" [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when referring to hardware interrupts.] And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine. -- William Wordsworth, "She Was a Phantom of Delight" [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when referring to software interrupts.]
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