Changes between Version 8 and Version 9 of How to capture a webcam input

Timestamp:

12/18/2012 10:49:10 PM (5 months ago)

Author:

rogerdpack

Comment:

note moved docu

How to capture a webcam input

@@ -4 +4 @@
 === dshow ===
 
-For windows you should probably use the "dshow" input source, like this:
-{{{
-ffmpeg -f dshow -r 25 -s 640x480 -i video="USB2.0_Camera":audio="Microphone (USB Audio Device)" output.avi
-}}}
-
-To list all available devices, you can type:
-{{{
-ffmpeg -f dshow -list_devices true -i dummy
-}}}
-
-To list all the options that one device supports, you can type:
-{{{
-ffmpeg -f dshow -list_options true -i video=<video device>
-}}}
-
-ffmpeg can also take dshow (DirectShow) as input by creating an avisynth file (.avs file) that itself gets input from a graphedit file, which graphedit file exposes a pin of your capture source or any filter really, ex ("yo.avs"):
-
-DirectShowSource("push2.GRF", fps=35, audio=False, framecount=1000000)
-
-Also this note that "The input string is in the format video=<video device name>:audio=<audio device name>. It is possible to have two separate inputs (like -f dshow -i audio=foo -f dshow -i video=bar) but my limited tests had shown a better synchronism when both were used in the same input."
+For windows you should probably use the "dshow" (DirectShow) FFmpeg input source.  See DirectShow.
 
 === vfwcap ===
 
-Or you can also possibly use the (now out dated) '''[http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html#vfwcap vfwcap]''' input device, like this:
+Windows users that can't use DirectShow can possibly use the (now out dated) '''[http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html#vfwcap vfwcap]''' input device, like this:
 
 To list the supported capture devices, connected to the machine:
@@ -55 +36 @@
 }}}
 
-Where "'''-i 0'''" is the index (zero based) in the list of present capture devices ("'''Driver 0'''").
+Where "'''-i 0'''" is the index (zero based) in the list of present capture devices ("'''Driver 0'''" in this instance).
 
 == Linux ==