STREAM(M)                                               STREAM(M)



NAME
       stream - captures an audio and (multiple) video stream(m)

SYNOPSIS
       stream [options] streams...

DESCRIPTION
       Vstream is a collection of utilities for capturing reason-
       ably high quality video from a  v4l  device  (specifically
       configured  for bttv).  A simultaneous audio track is also
       captured.

       The first utility - stream - captures an audio and (multi-
       ple)  video stream(m).  For highest performance, the video
       stream should be written to a raw partition(n).

OPTIONS
       -half  only capture 1 of every 2 frames - reduces required
              bandwidth  with  little visible loss in quality (in
              my opinion).

       -halfx Xxdim Xydim
              capture half the frames to disk and half  to  an  X
              window  of width Xxdim and height Xydim (see BUGS).

       -start time
              the next argument, in the form hh:mm:ss:dd:mm:yyyy,
              is  the  time  at which recording will start.  Only
              the  first  three  arguments  are  required.    The
              remaining  arguments will be taken from the current
              date/time.

       -end time
              time to stop recording. Same format as "-start".

       xdim   width

       ydim   height

       streams...
              One audio stream and max.  256  video  streams  are
              possible.  Both types of the arguments are simply a
              file name (should be an empty file or a raw  parti-
              tion), the first argument will be the audio stream,
              the other will be video streams.

SEE ALSO
       audioclip(p),   audioconv(v),   str2ppm(m),    ppm2str(r),
       xfv(v), xsf(f).

AUTHOR
       This   manual   page   was   written   by   Lenart   Janos
       <ocsi@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU system (but  may  be
       used by others).



                          April 25, 2001                STREAM(M)