Changes between Version 7 and Version 8 of How to capture a webcam input

Timestamp:

09/20/2012 06:20:51 PM (9 months ago)

Author:

burek

Comment:

Added "v4l2" as a shorthand for "video4linux2"

How to capture a webcam input

@@ -59 +59 @@
 == Linux ==
 
-On Linux, we can use '''[http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html#video4linux2 video4linux2]''' input device to capture live input (such as web camera), like this:
+On Linux, we can use '''[http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html#video4linux2 video4linux2]''' (or shortly "v4l2") input device to capture live input (such as web camera), like this:
 {{{
 ffmpeg -f video4linux2 -r 25 -s 640x480 -i /dev/video0 out.avi
+}}}
+or
+{{{
+ffmpeg -f v4l2 -r 25 -s 640x480 -i /dev/video0 out.avi
 }}}