Two quick Linux media tips:
- Webcam - Viewer / recorder
To use my webcam i found this great peace of software:
"GUVCView"
To install it on ubuntu (simply):
# apt-get install guvcview
And that's it, you can launch it and view / record or take snapshots with your webcam.
- ffmpeg - great tool to encode and transform your videos, avi, mpeg, mov...etc.
# apt-get install ffmpeg
and use it:
$ ffmpeg -formats
$ ffmpeg -i yourfile.ext -vcodec wmv2 -sameq -acodec wmav2 -f avi outfile.avi
I run into some trouble with the xvid codecs, but found the solution here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ffmpeg
That's it.
