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Poor image quality and high CPU usage while streaming in high resolution using webcam and VLC in Linux

I'm trying to do some some streaming with a webcam, but so far the results are not good: everything I stream in 320x240 looks good, but as soon as I choose a higher resolution, the image quality gets ...
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Directing USB webcam into RTSP server or MJPEG server (OS X)

I have - for want of a better term - a DVR, which accepts IP camera feeds in the form of RTSP streams or MJPEG feeds. It works a treat. For reasons I'll not go into, for the sake of a customer demo, ...
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Streaming audio and video to VLC with ffmpeg and ffserver

I'm trying to set up a webcam with a raspberry pi 2 that I can view from VLC media player on another computer. I followed the tutorial here to get video only working, but his other tutorial that ...
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Trying to set up WebCam Recording in VLC

The actual recording part I have figured out to completion. What I'm having trouble with is figuring out a way to automatically add a number to my file output. For example: Stream_00.mp4 Stream_01....
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Attempting to stream two C920 Logitech Webcams From Fedora using GStreamer to Windows VLC Client

My apologies in advance for violating any etiquette / rules regarding posting in SuperUser. This is my first post. First of all, I am a streaming video amateur -- the solution I have "cobbled" ...
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VLC audio equalizer has no effect on recorded video

I'm trying to capture a video from Logitech c920 webcam and modify the audio that is recorded. I'm using the command cvlc v4l2:///dev/video0:chroma=h264:width=640:height=480 :input-slave='alsa://hw:1,...
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VLC scene filter ratio

I'm using VLC to capture images on a webcam over time to build a timelapse video: vlc -I dummy v4l2:// --video-filter scene -V dummy --scene-ratio 200 --scene-format png --scene-prefix img --scene-...
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How to capture Nth frame of a webcam in VLC?

I'd like to take a picture with my webcam on the command line with VLC. The camera is a Microsoft XBox Live Vision camera that I picked up on a whim (it was $5) and it miraculously worked out-of-the-...
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