Best way to save video on Rpi3

[Tim Müller]

On Thu, 2017-02-09 at 23:29 +0100, Walter Lucetti wrote:

> as far as I know the ELP cameras supports MJPEG format, but I have
> not understood the right way to get this format using "vl42src".
> 
> I tried a lot of "formats", but only I420 is accepted.

Try something like this for starters:

  gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src ! image/jpeg ! queue ! jpegparse ! matroskamux
! filesink location=video.mkv


You should be able to see a list of the supported formats with

  gst-device-monitor-1.0 Video/Source

Cheers
 -Tim

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