Recording Video

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 08:16 +0100, Jesper Larsen wrote:
> 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

Unfortunately that's not going to work so easily with non-streaming
formats like AVI, because you need headers at the beginning of the file
etc., and the AVI muxer won't write new ones when you switch to the next
file. This works better with e.g. ogg or mpeg-{ps,ts}.

Cheers
 -Tim

> 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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