[wellylug] Video Capture device

Donald Gordon don at dis.org.nz
Tue Sep 28 16:08:01 NZST 2004


On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 15:56:44 +1200
"E.Chalaron" <e.chalaron at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> Good luck to encode mpeg on the fly, unless you run a serious PC.

Depends what you mean by "serious"; the 2.6GHz P4s at VUW, and my Athlon
XP 2600+ at home both seem capable of encoding >640x480 MPEG4
considerably faster than realtime, using mencoder with libavcodec. 
Which is kind of useful when you have a week's worth of webcam images in
JPEG that you want to view in video form.

donald




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