I am trying to capture webcam output in linux/ubuntu. I have a chicony webcam (lenovo laptop). I am running inside a VMWARE virtual machine. The capture is not proceeding beyond 10 seconds. can you please help.
The command I used is:
$ ffmpeg -y -f video4linux2 -r 20 -s 160x120 -i /dev/video0 -acodec libfaac -ab 128k /tmp/web.avi
The most important message I am getting is:
[video4linux2,v4l2 @ 0x9e43fa0] The v4l2 frame is 46448 bytes, but 153600 bytes are expected
Complete message from ffmpeg:
ffmpeg version N-55159-gf118b41 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
built on Aug 18 2013 09:09:13 with gcc 4.6 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5)
configuration: --enable-libass --prefix=/opt/ffmpeg --enable-debug --enable-libfreetype
libavutil 52. 40.100 / 52. 40.100
libavcodec 55. 19.100 / 55. 19.100
libavformat 55. 12.102 / 55. 12.102
libavdevice 55. 3.100 / 55. 3.100
libavfilter 3. 82.100 / 3. 82.100
libswscale 2. 4.100 / 2. 4.100
libswresample 0. 17.103 / 0. 17.103
[video4linux2,v4l2 @ 0x9e43fa0] The V4L2 driver changed the video from 160x120 to 320x240
[video4linux2,v4l2 @ 0x9e43fa0] The driver changed the time per frame from 1/20 to 1/15
Input #0, video4linux2,v4l2, from '/dev/video0':
Duration: N/A, start: 6424.338678, bitrate: 18432 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Video: rawvideo (YUY2 / 0x32595559), yuyv422, 320x240, 18432 kb/s, 15 fps, 15 tbr, 1000k tbn, 1000k tbc
Codec AVOption ab (set bitrate (in bits/s)) specified for output file #0 (/tmp/web.avi) has not been used for any stream. The most likely reason is either wrong type (e.g. a video option with no video streams) or that it is a private option of some encoder which was not actually used for any stream.
Output #0, avi, to '/tmp/web.avi':
Metadata:
ISFT : Lavf55.12.102
Stream #0:0: Video: mpeg4 (FMP4 / 0x34504D46), yuv420p, 320x240, q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 20 tbn, 20 tbc
Stream mapping:
Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (rawvideo -> mpeg4)
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[video4linux2,v4l2 @ 0x9e43fa0] The v4l2 frame is 46448 bytes, but 153600 bytes are expected
/dev/video0: Invalid data found when processing input
frame= 29 fps= 14 q=3.5 Lsize= 87kB time=00:00:01.45 bitrate= 490.0kbits/s
video:80kB audio:0kB subtitle:0 global headers:0kB muxing overhead 7.760075%
[video4linux2,v4l2 @ 0x9e43fa0] Some buffers are still owned by the caller on close.