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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: In search of a hint/ides: Loop recording of a webcam
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 15:48:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140906154810.602d4cf3@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140906125933.GA3822@solfire>

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On Sat, 6 Sep 2014 14:59:34 +0200, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:

> I already have a script hacked together with a gst-launch command,
> which is able to fetch the Full HD hardware encoded stream from
> the C920 and put it on the harddisk.
> 
> But I failed in creating a script which allows me to simultanously
> watch the material which gets recorded just in the same moment.
> 
> Is there any software or script or <fill in something appropiate here>
> which does this loop recording as described above AND is able to pull
> the Full HD stream correctly from the C920?

Have your script send the video stream to stdout and pipe it through tee,
which will both send it to a file and back to stdout, where your video
player is listening.

Have you actually tried using motion detection software? I don't know how
powerful your system is, but I have motion processing three SD
streams simultaneously with no significant CPU usage.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-06 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-06 12:59 [gentoo-user] OT: In search of a hint/ides: Loop recording of a webcam meino.cramer
2014-09-06 14:48 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2014-09-06 15:56   ` meino.cramer
2014-09-07  8:23     ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-07 16:22       ` meino.cramer
2014-09-07 16:43         ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-06 18:57 ` J. Roeleveld

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