how to record video using webcam in pi sd card

[MomuuBhaii]

hi everybody. this is my first time to ask question here.
first of all excuse my English
let me tell u about my concept.
i am trying to record video using webcam, starting at specific time ( like 11:00am and stopping at 12:00pm ) and save it automatically in the specific folder on the desktop.
i have pi-2 with Raspbian installed and a webcam.
plz help me ,i tried to follow many tutorials on youtube.com and other sites but failed.
thanks in advance

[MarcScott]

Can you post the make and model of the webcam please.

[MomuuBhaii]

this is the webcam i have.
product of DANY.

[MarcScott]

Can you try this for me?

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install fswebcam
cd ~/
fswebcam -r 640x480 --jpeg 85 -D 1 web-cam-shot.jpg

You should see an image called web-cam-shot.jpg in your home directory

[MomuuBhaii]

Thank you sir
Will you please also tell me , how to record video for 2mins using webcam ???
Your help will solve my problem

[kolban]

For recording a video for a period of time, I use:

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ffmpeg -t 120 -f v4l2 -framerate 25 -video_size 640x80 -i /dev/video0 output.mkv

The "-t time" flag specifies the duration of the recording in seconds.

[MomuuBhaii]

Bash error
sir i am working in python IDLE medium and want to record video e.g at 9:00am for 2 mins (every day). so what would be the code for this process ?

[MarcScott]

Sorry, I didn't read your post properly. Though you wanted images.
kolbans command can be used in Python

Make sure you have ffmpeg

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sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

Then in Python:

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import os
os.system('ffmpeg -t 120 -f v4l2 -framerate 25 -video_size 640x80 -i /dev/video0 -t 300 output.mkv')

[MomuuBhaii]

sir thanks for the reply but the code still not working
when i execute it, a command window appears for a quarter of a second and then disappears in the shell.

[MarcScott]

Is there no video file in the directory that holds your python script?

[YuvrajSandip]

Sir,it says no ffmpeg library exist..
Could you please tell us an alternate library to install or how to get the library installed?

[tsteles]

You can use

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sudo apt-get install libav-tools

and then write "avconv" instead of "ffmpeg" or create a alias.

See this viewtopic.php?t=125367

[tsteles]

Example:

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avconv -t 10 -f video4linux2 -i /dev/video0 video0.avi

[OutsourcedGuru]

Keep in mind that the 8MP Pi NoIR v2 camera at its highest resolution probably eats 1GB of memory every 8 minutes of video. So in perhaps 24 minutes or so you could fill your partition if you have a 4GB card.