mencoder for a webcam

[Olivier]

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 2:05 AM, Olivier <Olivier.Nicole at cs.ait.ac.th> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I used to have it working, but I cannot find how to get that working
>> again:
>>
>> I have a webcam installed, webcamd running, and pwcview can show me the
>> video.
>>
>> How can I use mencoder to capture and save the stream?
>>
>> I used to have something of the form:
>>
>> /usr/local/bin/mencoder tv:// -tv noaudio:fps=10 -nosound -ovc lavc
>> -ofps 10 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=400 -o <filename> -really-quiet
>>
>> but it now complains that:
>>
>> tvi_bsdbt848: Unable to open bktr device. Error: No such file or directory
>> tvi_bsdbt848: Unable to open tuner device. Error: No such file or directory
>> tvi_bsdbt848: Unable to open dsp device. Error: Operation not supported
>>
>> So what is the secret command to get mencoder grab the video stream from
>> the webcam?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Olivier
>>
>> --
>> _______________________________________________
>>
>>
>
> Please search
>
> bktr device
>
> in Google .
>
>
> For example , see link :
>
> https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bktr&sektion=4

This concerns the brooktree device driver, it is not related to USB
webcam.

Or I am missing something.

Best regards,

Olivier

>
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>
>
> Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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