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Linux web cam with time and date?

How to record video from webcam with added date and time? VLC and cheese cat't do it.
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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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VLC Stream Size

VLC can open my webcam using the Media → Open Capture Device menu. However, how do I control the webcam capture resolution? It seems to be stuck at 640x480.
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VideoLAN device addressing in VLC

How do I get the VideoLAN device information that corresponds with /dev/video, and /dev/video1 for vlc targetting? This command kind of does what I want: vlc v4l2:// -vvv input_stream --sout='#...
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