[FFmpeg-user] Capturing video from old webcam

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Paweł Kajak <pkajak <at> gmail.com> writes:

> ffmpeg -f rawvideo -video_size 352x288 
> -vcodec yuv4 -i /dev/video1 test.mpeg

Your camera does not provide data encoded in 
yuv4 (a very rare format defined by libquicktime 
iirc). It does not support yuv420 either, 
judging from the output you provided earlier.

Did you already test the -framerate option? 
Does it work?

Do you really think the quality will improve 
at a higher resolution? I would expect that 
the camera does some upscaling internally, 
don't you agree? The bayer output is what 
the camera provides internally imo.
Anyway, test with libv4l2, I would expect that 
this works (but I have never used it so I 
cannot help you with it).

Carl Eugen