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I am trying to capture video(alongwith audio) from a webcam.
I need to record the video and save it to a file,for further processing.
Would like to do it through CLI.

Any ideas how to do it using ffmpeg or gstreamer.

I am getting these errors: 

1.gstreamer:-  erroneous pipeline: no element "xvimagesink".  
2.ffmpeg   :-  unable to find suitable output format for video4linux2.

Any help is appreciated.

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Cheese webcam studio can record Video and take photo's with effects.

As for cli recording, see if this will work 

streamer -q -c /dev/video0 -f rgb24 -r 3 -t 00:30:00 -o ~/outfile.avi



ffmpeg -f oss -i /dev/dsp -f video4linux2 -s 320x240 -i /dev/video0 out.mpg

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  • thanks for help, but i am using *gstreamer*(gst-launch-0.10) not *streamer* – python_beginner Jul 10 '12 at 11:52
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    @blade19899 It seems that `/dev/dsp` is no more available. It is replaced by `alsa`. see [this](http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/103755/52402) – sourav c. Mar 24 '16 at 06:32
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    Yes, the ffmpeg command results in `/dev/dsp: No such file or directory` on Unbuntu 2015.10. And by the way, the streamer command records in quality much lower than what a correct ffmpeg command produces. – Nicolas Raoul Mar 24 '16 at 06:33