On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. <[email protected]> wrote: > mencoder tv:// -tv driver=v4l:width=320:height=240:device=/dev/video0 > -nosound -ovc lavc -o wcrecording.avi > > wcrecording.avi just shows a black screen when palyed w/ mplayer > > I also tried > > ffmpeg -f video4linux2 -i /dev/video0 /tmp/out.mpg > > but it barfs w/ this error > > [video4linux2 @ 0xb7f6b110]Missing/Wrong parameters > /dev/video0: Error while opening file > > can someone please help ?
Can you please give the output of following commands as user ls -l /dev/video* groups This will check if /dev/video0 actually exists and if the permissions are right. Here's my blog post on how I got my webcam to work on Linux see if it helps http://techlog.mehulved.com/?p=24 -- I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. -- Mae West -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
