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From: meino.cramer@×××.de
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Logitech C920 HD Pro Webcamera ... view: YES record: NO ?
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 02:39:14
Message-Id: 20140611023841.GA4037@solfire
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Logitech C920 HD Pro Webcamera ... view: YES record: NO ? by thegeezer
1 thegeezer <thegeezer@×××××××××.net> [14-06-10 17:08]:
2 > On 06/07/2014 04:18 PM, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
3 > > Hi,
4 > >
5 > > the Logitech c920 HD Pro webcam is able to deliver 1920xq080x30fps
6 > > (H.264).
7 > >
8 > > Now I am trying to display (watch) and record the video stream.
9 > > Currently I am using guvcview.
10 > >
11 > > Most of the time watching is not an problem: no video delays, no
12 > > frame drops, no ultra low fps...wonderful!
13 > >
14 > > But beware of pressing the "record" botton...
15 > >
16 > > KABOOM! guvcview ends with an error message, which does not say
17 > > anythong to me...:
18 > >
19 > > (guvcview:19104): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_set_sensitive: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
20 > > initiating video file context
21 > > STREAM: add stream 0 to stream list
22 > >
23 > > I tried "cheese" which interestingly dies similiarily...
24 > >
25 > > Since there a zillions of things to tweak with the video and audio
26 > > setting I still hope that someone got this nice camera running and
27 > > recording with full hd and audio ....
28 > >
29 > > ?
30 > >
31 > > Any ide to fix that?
32 > >
33 > > Best regards,
34 > > mcc
35 > >
36 > >
37 > >
38 > >
39 > >
40 > have you tried something like media-video/motion which would do much of
41 > this for you (although it would qualify "any motion" as "interesting")
42 > i just thought that if it is a daemon in the background always with the
43 > record set this might work ...
44 >
45
46 Thank you for your help !:))
47
48 yes, I tried that software with my previous webcam, which does not
49 offer HD or Full HD as the current one. With my setup (means: may be I
50 did something wrong...;) it eats too much resources...there is only
51 one Linux box for me work and for detecting motions and for recording
52 video.
53
54 The Logitech offers 1920x1080 Full HD HD264, which needs to be decoded
55 frame by frame, analyzed and when found "interesting" to be recorded
56 to disc while further analyzing steps are running.
57
58 If motion failed (with my setup) to work with """"low res"""" video
59 streams I dont think that it will successfully run under the load of
60 Full HD.
61
62 Furthermore there is a delay of ~1 second between "reality" and video
63 possbly due to not that fast compression hardware in the camera...