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I Need Help Getting ffmpeg Working With My Camera

Asked by systemsPA in Ubuntu, Computer Web Cameras, Linux

Tags: ffmpeg, Ubuntu, Logitech, quickcam

Hi.

I am trying to set up a video surveillance system using Zoneminder. I have been trying for over a week to get this working and even tried using Motion until some helpers on other various forums aided me in narrowing down the problem to ffmpeg.

I am still just trying to get the first camera working; that camera is a Logitech Quickcam Pro 5000. Its drivers are included in Ubuntu by default (supposedly); and it worked right off the bat with programs such as Cheese and XawTV and displayed a perfect picture.

When I try to run ffmpeg from the command line I get an error. The command that I used I got from a user on another forum and several users confirmed that the command worked. I get an error when using it and I can't find anything on Google to help me. Here it is:

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             someone@somewhere:# ffmpeg -f video4linux2 -s 640x480 -r 30000/1001 -i /dev/video0 -y webcam.avi
FFmpeg version 0.5-svn17737+3:0.svn20090303-1ubuntu6, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --enable-x11grab --extra-version=svn17737+3:0.svn20090303-1ubuntu6 --prefix=/usr --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf --enable-libgsm --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --disable-stripping --disable-vhook --enable-libdc1394 --disable-armv5te --disable-armv6 --disable-armv6t2 --disable-armvfp --disable-neon --disable-altivec --disable-vis --enable-shared --disable-static
  libavutil     49.15. 0 / 49.15. 0
  libavcodec    52.20. 0 / 52.20. 0
  libavformat   52.31. 0 / 52.31. 0
  libavdevice   52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0
  libavfilter    0. 4. 0 /  0. 4. 0
  libswscale     0. 7. 1 /  0. 7. 1
  libpostproc   51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
  built on Apr 10 2009 23:18:41, gcc: 4.3.3
[video4linux2 @ 0x8bb9ac0][3]Capabilities: 4000001
[video4linux2 @ 0x8bb9ac0]Cannot find a proper format.
/dev/video0: I/O error occurred
Usually that means that input file is truncated and/or corrupted.

           
         

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I Need Help Getting ffmpeg Working With My Camera

Asked by systemsPA in Ubuntu, Computer Web Cameras, Linux

Tags: ffmpeg, Ubuntu, Logitech, quickcam

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