[Live-devel] openRTSP producing bad video files

[Mike Mueller]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 03:51:29PM -0700, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>> I am having a problem with openRTSP recording video from a few Axis
>> video cameras.  I'm basically running openRTSP like this:
>>
>>   openRTSP -q -b 80000 -w 704 -h 480 -f 30 rtsp://url > foo.mov
>>
>> When I play foo.mov in mplayer, it's jerky and plays too fast, where 10
>> seconds of wall time will go by in 4 to 6 seconds.
>
> It sounds like your "-f" (frame rate) parameter is wrong.  Perhaps it  
> should be 15, or 12 frames-per-second?  You need to get that correct.

I did try 15 with similar results.  I can try other values tomorrow I
suppose.  Is it possible that the mpeg4 stream actually has a variable
framerate?

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Mike Mueller
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