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Command line for Hauppauge PVR 250 to get France 2 (at ECP) and encode as MPEG2 and stream using UDP multicast: | Command line for Hauppauge PVR 250 to get France 2 (at ECP) and encode as MPEG2 and stream using UDP multicast: | ||
% '''vlc -I dummy -vvv 'v4l2c://:audio-method=0:controls-reset:set-ctrls={video_bitrate_mode=1,video_bitrate=4000000,video_peak_bitrate=4000000}:width=720:height=576:tuner=0:tuner-frequency=478550' --sout "#std{access=udp{ttl=12},mux=ts,url=239.255.1.1}"''' | % '''vlc -I dummy -vvv 'v4l2c://:audio-method=0:controls-reset:set-ctrls={video_bitrate_mode=1,video_bitrate=4000000,video_peak_bitrate=4000000}:width=720:height=576:tuner=0:tuner-frequency=478550' --sout "#std{access=udp{ttl=12},mux=ts,url=239.255.1.1}"''' | ||
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== See also == | == See also == | ||
Revision as of 13:12, 23 January 2008
| Module: v4l2 | |
|---|---|
| Type | Access |
| First VLC version | 0.9.0 |
| Last VLC version | - |
| Operating system(s) | Linux |
| Description | Video for Linux 2 input |
| Shortcut(s) | - |
Options
- v4l2-caching <integer> : Caching in ms
Video input
- v4l2-dev <string> : Primary device name default value: "/dev/video0"
- v4l2-standard <integer> : Video standard default value: 0
- v4l2-chroma <string> : Force use of a specific video chroma (Use MJPG here to use a webcam's MJPEG stream) default value: ""
- v4l2-input <integer> : Card input to use for video default value: 0
- v4l2-audio-input <integer> : Card input to use for audio default value: 0
- v4l2-io <integer> : IO method default value: 0
- v4l2-width <integer> : Prefered video width (if non zero) default value: 0
- v4l2-height <integer> : Prefered video height (if non zero) default value: 0
- v4l2-fps <float> : Frames per second (if non zero) default value: 0
Audio input
- v4l2-adev <string> : Audio input device default value: ""
- v4l2-audio-method <integer> : Allowed audio input methods (bitmask: 1 for OSS, 2 for ALSA) default value: 3
- v4l2-stereo : Capture audio in stereo default value: enabled
- v4l2-samplerate <integer> : Audio input sample rate in Hz default value: 48000
Tuner
- v4l2-tuner <integer> : Tuner to use default value: 0
- v4l2-tuner-frequency <integer> : Tuner frequency in Hz or MHz depending on the underlying v4l2 driver default value: -1
- v4l2-tuner-audio-mode <integer> : Tuner audio mode default value: -1
Controls
These controls will be used only if they are supported by the v4l2 driver.
- v4l2-controls-reset : Reset all the v4l2 controls default value: disabled
- v4l2-brightness <integer> : Brightness default value: -1
- v4l2-contrast <integer> : Contrast default value: -1
- v4l2-saturation <integer> : Saturation default value: -1
- v4l2-hue <integer> : Hue default value: -1
- v4l2-black-level <integer> : Black level default value: -1
- v4l2-auto-white-balance <integer> : Auto white balance default value: -1
- v4l2-do-white-balance <integer> : Do white balance default value: -1
- v4l2-red-balance <integer> : Red balance default value: -1
- v4l2-blue-balance <integer> : Blue balance default value: -1
- v4l2-gamma <integer> : Gamma default value: -1
- v4l2-exposure <integer> : Exposure default value: -1
- v4l2-autogain <integer> : Auto gain default value: -1
- v4l2-gain <integer> : Gain default value: -1
- v4l2-hflip <integer> : Flip the image horizontaly default value: -1
- v4l2-vflip <integer> : Flip the image verticaly default value: -1
- v4l2-hcenter <integer> : Horizontal center default value: -1
- v4l2-vcenter <integer> : Vertical center default value: -1
- v4l2-audio-volume <integer> : Audio volume default value: -1
- v4l2-audio-balance <integer> : Audio balance default value: -1
- v4l2-audio-mute : Audio mute default value: disabled
- v4l2-audio-bass <integer> : Audio bass default value: -1
- v4l2-audio-treble <integer> : Audio treble default value: -1
- v4l2-audio-loudness <integer> : Audio loudness default value: -1
- v4l2-set-ctrls <string> : Set any other control listed in the debug output using a comma seperated list in curly braces such as {video_bitrate=6000000,audio_crc=0,stream_type=3} default value: ""
Example
Open a video device with default settings:
% vlc v4l2:///dev/video0:width=640:height=480
Get information about a video device's capabilities:
% vlc -vvv --color v4l2:///dev/video0 --run-time 1 vlc:quit -I dummy -V dummy -A dummy
Command line for Hauppauge PVR 250 to get France 2 (at ECP) and encode as MPEG2 and stream using UDP multicast:
% vlc -I dummy -vvv 'v4l2c://:audio-method=0:controls-reset:set-ctrls={video_bitrate_mode=1,video_bitrate=4000000,video_peak_bitrate=4000000}:width=720:height=576:tuner=0:tuner-frequency=478550' --sout "#std{access=udp{ttl=12},mux=ts,url=239.255.1.1}"
Note: v4l2c is an alias used to force VLC to use the v4l2 module in it's Access variant without probing the Access Demux version first (the c stands for compressed).
See also
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