Recording Video

[Jesper Larsen]

Take a look at the multifilesink element.
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-good-plugins/html/gst-plugins-good-plugins-multifilesink.html

You might be able to use it in a gst-launch line using the properties
- max-file-size
- next-file

Jesper


On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Ian Davidson
<id012c3076 at blueyonder.co.uk>wrote:

> Please can you advise me.
>
> I am attempting to record audio/video which I expect to last up to 1½
> hours.  If I try to do that as one single file, storing as AVI, I get a
> file which is over 2GB and that causes problems.  Therefore, I like to
> record 3 shorter videos - and in the past I have manually stopped the
> recording at a 'convenient point' and started a new recording - keeping
> each recording to a maximum of 40 minutes.
>
> An alternative approach would be to record for a certain time and then
> automatically stop and start a new recording.  This would mean that the
> recording break would probably come when someone was speaking, so there
> would be a little 'hiccup'.  I wrote the script below to see how much of a
> gap there was between successive recordings (the camera was pointing at a
> digital clock showing seconds).  The videos did not turn out quite as I
> expected.
>
>
> #!/bin/bash
> fileNamePart="${HOME}/video"
> v4l2-ctl -i 1
> counter=0
> while [ $counter -lt 3 ]; do
>     let counter=counter+1
>     fullFileName="${fileNamePart}-**${counter}.avi"
>     gst-launch-1.0 -e v4l2src norm=PAL num-buffers=100 !
> 'video/x-raw,format=(string)**I420,width=352,height=288,**framerate=(fraction)25/1'
> ! queue ! mux. alsasrc num-buffers=440 ! audioconvert !
> 'audio/x-raw,rate=44100,**channels=2' ! queue ! mux. avimux name=mux !
> filesink location="$fullFileName"
> done
>
> It would appear that video-1 was fine.  Video-2 then started and there was
> a slight break in the audio from the end of video-1. However, the video
> content of video-2 has a 4 second gap in the middle of the clip.
>
> I assume that the 2 sources v4l2src and alsasrc are each set to produce
> the nominated number of buffers - and that's what they are going to do.
>  The fact that one source has produced an EOS (I assume) does not stop the
> other.
>
> Would I be correct in assuming that, if I wrote a C program, rather than
> using gst-launch, I would be able close both sources down at a time that
> suited me?  And also that I cannot do it using gst-launch?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ian
>
> By the way, thanks to those who have already got me this far.
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