[MPlayer-users] [Video stream] network stream recording with mplayer

[takeo kikuta]

Can I create realtime conversion?

2010/4/10 RC <cooleyr at gmail.com>

> On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 14:20:22 +0200
> takeo kikuta <takeo.kikuta at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > mplayer http://host/axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgi -user root -passwd root \
> >  -cache 1024 -fps 25.0 -nosound -vc ffh264 \
> > -demuxer 3 -dumpstream -dumpfile output.avi
>
> demuxer, cache, fps, nosound, vc, etc., options make no difference when
> you are simply dumping the raw stream to disk.  Also, it's certainly not
> an avi file.
>
> > Video Playing is very fast! Why? Is it a synch problem?
>
> You're playing a raw stream of JPEG images, like a slideshow.  There's
> no timing information stored anywhere.  On playback, you can force a
> framerate.  You can mux / encode the video into some multimedia format
> to get a file with a hard-coded framerate, but it will still be whatever
> rate you manually specify.
>
> > What parameter I have to use for setting video bitrate with mplayer?
>
> You're just dumping what the camera provides.  Set the quality there, or
> reencode the video with mencoder.
>
> --
> Ha. I'm the idiot.
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