I'm emailing G offlist, since once *again* that idiot nixspam is screwing me over.... g wrote: > On 09/30/2014 01:06 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: >> On 09/30/2014 04:08 AM, g wrote: >>>> On 09/28/2014 05:28 PM, Chris Pemberton wrote: >>>>> VLC can record the input from /dev/videoX. >>> >>> i did find a link at gofree.com that lead to videolan.org, which lead >>> to rpm.pbone.net, where i found binary rpms for fedora and other os's, >>> but none for centos. >>> >>> so, it looks like if i want vlc for centos, i will have to try compile >>> source. not looking forward to such right now. >> >> vlc is in nux dextop repo for C6, works fine > > i also enabled nux in yumex, but it did not show up. will try again. > > if it does not show, i will go direct to nux and look for it. > At work, the std. package motion works quite well (esp. once we bought cards and BNC-connected cameras, instead of really cheap 10-yr-old USB webcams....) It uses ffmpeg and non-free to record as mp3, or avi. mark mark