[CentOS] webcam program for continuous recording.

Chris Pemberton cjpembo at gmail.com
Tue Sep 30 15:02:04 UTC 2014


On 09/29/2014 09:53 PM, g wrote:
> > the problem is, VLC steps all over a bunch of patents for various
> > media formats, like mp3, mp4, which are heavily constrained by
> > patents.... players are supposed to pay royalties, so legitimate US
> > business at least can't distribute working binaries of free
> > opensource implementations.

VLC has the option to record video using FLAC and THEORA.

https://xiph.org/flac/license.html
http://www.theora.org/faq/#14

I suppose you could dig into the RPM and delete any libraries that you 
don't have licenses for.  Or just use an external video camera...

Chris



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