NAME¶

streamer - record audio and/or video

SYNOPSIS¶

streamer [ options ]

DESCRIPTION¶

streamer reads audio and/or video data from /dev/video0 and /dev/dsp and writes the data to the disk. Various output formats are supported. Start streamer with '-h' for a list of options and supported output formats.

streamer will use the file extention of the output file name to figure which format to use. You need the -f/-F options only if the extention allows more than one format. If you get the "neither audio nor video format specified/found" message and don't know why, you can enable the debug output (-d switch) to see what is going on.

You can safely stop the recording at any time with Ctrl+C. streamer will catch the signal and stop recording correctly (i.e. write movie file headers) before exiting.

EXAMPLES¶

streamer -o foobar.jpeg

write a single jpeg file.

streamer -o quicktime.mov -f yuv2 -F stereo -r 12 -t 0:10

record a short quicktime movie.

SEE ALSO¶

xawtv(1), v4lctl(1)

AUTHOR¶

Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>

COPYRIGHT¶

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.