Comment 33 for bug 385344

This works okay for me (pause at the beginning and occasional pause in
middle of video) but not great. Probably good enough, though, is there a way
to specify what command to use in cheese?

2010/10/31 Molnár Gábor <email address hidden>

> This works well for video recording on the same machine where cheese is
> very laggy:
>
> ffmpeg -f alsa -i pulse -f video4linux2 -s 640x480 -i /dev/video0 -r 24
> video.mpg
>
> --
> Netbooks- Cheese video recording is laggy at higher video resolutions
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385344
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> Status in Cheese Camera Application: Confirmed
> Status in “cheese” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Build Version/Date: unr-jaunty 20090609
> Environment used for testing: Dell Inspiron Mini 1011
>
> Summary:
> When recording a video with cheese, the resulting video is extremely
> choppy, to the point where it drops more frames than it captures.
>
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. Install OS from USB
> 2. Go through config
> 3. Open cheese, record a video
> 4. Notice very laggy video
>
> Expected result:
> Video is watchable
>
> Actual result:
> Video unwatchable
>
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