video grabber with time line in video

[Matthias Apitz]

Hello,

I'm running FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT r368166 (amd64) with recent ports and
KDE plasma. I can do video grabbing fine with KDE's 'cheese':


cheese-3.38.0_2
Name : cheese
Version : 3.38.0_2
Installed on : Fri Jan 8 16:55:21 2021 CET
Origin : multimedia/cheese
Architecture : FreeBSD:13:amd64
Prefix : /usr/local
Categories : gnome multimedia
Licenses : GPLv2
Maintainer : ***@FreeBSD.org
WWW : http://www.gnome.org/projects/cheese/
Comment : Photobooth-inspired app for taking pictures and videos from webcam
...
Description :
Cheese is a Photobooth-inspired GNOME application for taking pictures and
videos from a webcam. It also includes fancy graphical effects based on the
gstreamer-backend.

WWW: http://www.gnome.org/projects/cheese/

What I'm missing is a running time line in the picture itself on
presenting the video in a browser or with mplayer.

Any ideas of some other video grabber?

matthias

[Weaver]

Post by Matthias Apitz
Hello,
I'm running FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT r368166 (amd64) with recent ports and
cheese-3.38.0_2
Name : cheese
Version : 3.38.0_2
Installed on : Fri Jan 8 16:55:21 2021 CET
Origin : multimedia/cheese
Architecture : FreeBSD:13:amd64
Prefix : /usr/local
Categories : gnome multimedia
Licenses : GPLv2
WWW : http://www.gnome.org/projects/cheese/
Comment : Photobooth-inspired app for taking pictures and videos from webcam
...
Cheese is a Photobooth-inspired GNOME application for taking pictures and
videos from a webcam. It also includes fancy graphical effects based on the
gstreamer-backend.
WWW: http://www.gnome.org/projects/cheese/
What I'm missing is a running time line in the picture itself on
presenting the video in a browser or with mplayer.
Any ideas of some other video grabber?

Ardour would do everything you wanted and a lot more.
You would need to install JACK, but I understand there is precedence for
it running on FreeBSD.
Cheers!

Harry.

[Matthias Apitz]

Post by Weaver
Ardour would do everything you wanted and a lot more.
You would need to install JACK, but I understand there is precedence for
it running on FreeBSD.

Thanks, but audio/ardour looks from the pkg-description more like audio
mixing etc. And what is JACK?

matthias

[Steve O'Hara-Smith]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 14:43:40 +0200

Post by Matthias Apitz
What I'm missing is a running time line in the picture itself on
presenting the video in a browser or with mplayer.

Sounds like you want to overlay the time line on the video - you
can probably torture ffmpeg's overlay feature into doing it but I doubt it
will be easy.

[Tomasz CEDRO]

For quick testing I use my favorite media player VLC - it opens all
sorts of devices and file formats (even broken ones), can stream
online, can transcode, works everywhere even from console or web :-)

https://www.freshports.org/multimedia/vlc/

For streaming or recording live events even with multiple sources with
real-time mixer control watermarks and scenes OBS is the best known
utility:

https://www.freshports.org/multimedia/obs-studio

If you need anything smaller scripted probably you could use gstreamer
of ffmpeg?

Tomek

ps/2: For anyone in need to grab some old analog stuff from VHS or
retro computers the tiny inexpensive VGB300 from April Inc is UVC
compatible and works out of the box on FreeBSD:
https://www.augustint.com/en/productmsg-90-348.html :-)