Re: Using Logitech Quickcam on Debian 4.0

[Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>]

On Fri August 8 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> man ffmpeg and learn how to capture the audio as well. The very first
> example in the man page Examples section shows one way to do it. It
> depends of course on whether the spca driver actually works with audio
> and captures an audio stream. That I don't know.

I also tried that line. it didn't work. I finally tweeked it to where it 
accepted all parameters, but then segfaulted:
$  ffmpeg -t 120 -i /dev/video0 -target svcd /home/pbc/paulsvideo.avi

FFmpeg version UNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
  
configuration: --prefix=/usr --libdir=${prefix}/lib --shlibdir=${prefix}/lib --incdir=${prefix}/include/ffmpeg --enable-shared --enable-libmp3lame --enable-gpl --enable-libfaad --mandir=${prefix}/share/man --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --enable-libfaac --enable-libxvid --enable-pp --enable-libamr-nb --enable-libamr-wb --enable-x11grab --enable-libgsm --enable-libx264 --enable-liba52 --enable-libtheora --extra-cflags=-Wall -g -fPIC -DPIC --cc=ccache 
cc --enable-swscaler --disable-mmx
  libavutil version: 49.5.0
  libavcodec version: 51.48.0
  libavformat version: 52.1.0
  built on Dec  7 2007 10:05:03, gcc: 4.2.3 20071123 (prerelease) (Debian 
4.2.2-4)
/home/pbc/bin/dowebcam: line 4:  3533 Segmentation fault      ffmpeg -t 
120 -i /dev/video0 -target svcd /home/pbc/paulsvideo.avi


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