Reccoding video for security application

[Olivier Nicole]

Hi,

> > > > I have a bktr848 video capture card in the machine and I would like to
> > > > reccord video and save it in a decent format (something that could
> > > > easily be played on most movie player on Windows and X, xvid, mpeg,
> > > > etc.) in the full 640x480 resolution.
> > > > 
> > > > I have been playing around with fxtv and dtv and transcode and...
> > > 
> > > 	Try ffmpeg - I used it as a VCR for a long time, mencoder should
> > > also work well and provides the very low CPU option of using nuv
> > > (Nuppelvideo) format recording.
> > Mencode has so many options, I don't know how to run it.
> 
> 	Most of them have to do with specifying the output format and
> encodings (it does support rather a lot of them).
> 
> 	Start with something like this
> 
> 	mencoder tv:// -tv driver=bsdbt848:norm=PAL:input=0 -ovc lavc
> -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=2400 -oac 'mp3lame' -lameopts br=128
> out.avi

I make it work with:

mencoder tv:// -tv driver=bsdbt848:noaudio:norm=NTSC:input=1 -nosound
-o toto.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=400

Thanks.

Now next question, is there a way to have the date and time added to
the image?

TIA,

Olivier