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authorStefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala@poste.it>2010-08-06 23:15:27 +0000
committerStefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala@poste.it>2010-08-06 23:15:27 +0000
commit2f6bc4e76e2cd52262a2b28b7fb7857c609f8003 (patch)
treeea87b9185d55c9094948caaeaf6ff68677d6367e /doc/indevs.texi
parentc32ccf7c436b6001905ecc14bf15021b645a5630 (diff)
Apply misc fixes spotted by Diego to indevs.texi and outdevs.texi.
Originally committed as revision 24724 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
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@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ Input devices are configured elements in FFmpeg which allow to access
the data coming from a multimedia device attached to your system.
When you configure your FFmpeg build, all the supported input devices
-are enabled by default. You can list them using the configure option
-"--list-indevs".
+are enabled by default. You can list all available ones using the
+configure option "--list-indevs".
You can disable all the input devices using the configure option
"--disable-indevs", and selectively enable an input device using the
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) input device.
To enable this input device during configuration you need libasound
installed on your system.
-This device allows to capture from an ALSA device. The name of the
+This device allows capturing from an ALSA device. The name of the
device to capture has to be an ALSA card identifier.
An ALSA identifier has the syntax:
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ specify card number or identifier, device number and subdevice number
To see the list of cards currently recognized by your system check the
files @file{/proc/asound/cards} and @file{/proc/asound/devices}.
-For example to capture with @file{ffmpeg} from an alsa device with
+For example to capture with @file{ffmpeg} from an ALSA device with
card id 0, you may run the command:
@example
ffmpeg -f alsa -i hw:0 alsaout.wav
@@ -65,38 +65,38 @@ Linux DV 1394 input device.
@section jack
-Jack input device.
+JACK input device.
To enable this input device during configuration you need libjack
installed on your system.
-A jack input device creates one or more jack writable clients, one for
+A JACK input device creates one or more JACK writable clients, one for
each audio channel, with name @var{client_name}:input_@var{N}, where
@var{client_name} is the name provided by the application, and @var{N}
is a number which identifies the channel.
Each writable client will send the acquired data to the FFmpeg input
device.
-Once you have created one or more jack readable clients, you need to
-connect them to one or more jack writable clients.
+Once you have created one or more JACK readable clients, you need to
+connect them to one or more JACK writable clients.
-To connect or disconnect jack clients you can use the
+To connect or disconnect JACK clients you can use the
@file{jack_connect} and @file{jack_disconnect} programs, or do it
through a graphical interface, for example with @file{qjackctl}.
-To list the jack clients and their properties you can invoke the command
+To list the JACK clients and their properties you can invoke the command
@file{jack_lsp}.
-Follows an example which shows how to capture a jack readable client
+Follows an example which shows how to capture a JACK readable client
with @file{ffmpeg}.
@example
-# create a jack writable client with name "ffmpeg"
+# Create a JACK writable client with name "ffmpeg".
$ ffmpeg -f jack -i ffmpeg -y out.wav
-# start the sample jack_metro readable client
+# Start the sample jack_metro readable client.
$ jack_metro -b 120 -d 0.2 -f 4000
-# list the current jack clients
+# List the current JACK clients.
$ jack_lsp -c
system:capture_1
system:capture_2
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ system:playback_2
ffmpeg:input_1
metro:120_bpm
-# connect metro to the ffmpeg writable client
+# Connect metro to the ffmpeg writable client.
$ jack_connect metro:120_bpm ffmpeg:input_1
@end example
@@ -122,9 +122,9 @@ Open Sound System input device.
The filename to provide to the input device is the device node
representing the OSS input device, and is usually set to
-@file{/dev/dsp/}.
+@file{/dev/dsp}.
-For example to grab from @file{/dev/dsp/} using @file{ffmpeg} use the
+For example to grab from @file{/dev/dsp} using @file{ffmpeg} use the
command:
@example
ffmpeg -f oss -i /dev/dsp /tmp/oss.wav
@@ -139,14 +139,14 @@ Video4Linux and Video4Linux2 input video devices.
The name of the device to grab is a file device node, usually Linux
systems tend to automatically create such nodes when the device
-(e.g. an USB webcam) is plugged to the system, and has a name of the
+(e.g. an USB webcam) is plugged into the system, and has a name of the
kind @file{/dev/video@var{N}}, where @var{N} is a number associated to
the device.
Video4Linux and Video4Linux2 devices only support a limited set of
@var{width}x@var{height} sizes and framerates. You can check which are
-supported for example using the command @file{dov4l} for Video4Linux
-devices, and the command @file{v4l-info} for Video4Linux2 devices.
+supported for example with the command @file{dov4l} for Video4Linux
+devices and the command @file{v4l-info} for Video4Linux2 devices.
If the size for the device is set to 0x0, the input device will
try to autodetect the size to use.
@@ -157,19 +157,19 @@ dropped in later versions.
Follow some usage examples of the video4linux devices with the ff*
tools.
@example
-# grab and show the input of a video4linux device
+# Grab and show the input of a video4linux device.
ffplay -s 320x240 -f video4linux /dev/video0
-# grab and show the input of a video4linux2 device, autoadjust size
+# Grab and show the input of a video4linux2 device, autoadjust size.
ffplay -f video4linux2 /dev/video0
-# grab and record the input of a video4linux2 device, autoadjust size
+# Grab and record the input of a video4linux2 device, autoadjust size.
ffmpeg -f video4linux2 -i /dev/video0 out.mpeg
@end example
@section vfwcap
-VFW (Video For Window) catpure input device.
+VFW (Video For Windows) capture input device.
@section x11grab
@@ -177,31 +177,30 @@ X11 video input device.
This device allows to capture a region of an X11 display.
-The filename passed in input has the syntax:
+The filename passed as input has the syntax:
@example
[@var{hostname}]:@var{display_number}.@var{screen_number}[+@var{x_offset},@var{y_offset}]
@end example
@var{hostname}:@var{display_number}.@var{screen_number} specifies the
-X11 display name of the screen to grab from. @var{hostname} can be not
-specified, and defaults to "localhost". The environment variable
+X11 display name of the screen to grab from. @var{hostname} can be
+ommitted, and defaults to "localhost". The environment variable
@env{DISPLAY} contains the default display name.
@var{x_offset} and @var{y_offset} specify the offsets of the grabbed
-area with respect to the top/left border of the X11 screen image. They
+area with respect to the top-left border of the X11 screen. They
default to 0.
Check the X11 documentation (e.g. man X) for more detailed information.
Use the @file{dpyinfo} program for getting basic information about the
-properties of your X11 display screen (e.g. grep for "name" or
-"dimensions").
+properties of your X11 display (e.g. grep for "name" or "dimensions").
For example to grab from @file{:0.0} using @file{ffmpeg}:
@example
ffmpeg -f x11grab -r 25 -s cif -i :0.0 out.mpg
-# grab at position 10,20
+# Grab at position 10,20.
ffmpeg -f x11grab -25 -s cif -i :0.0+10,20 out.mpg
@end example