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wrybread
13th January 2008, 14:46
I'm trying to capture video from commandline. I have three big requirements:

- I have to be able to see a live preview of the capture

- I need to be able to start the capture from an external script, probably via commandline

- I need to be able to stop the capture from an external script/commandline.

VirtualDub almost works for me but I'm having problems with its live preview. VirtualVCR works great but it doesn't have a way to start and stop capture from commandline. I'm currently sending keystrokes to VirtualVCR to start and stop it's capture, but that method is a bit flakey and doesn't work 100% of the time.

Wondering if anyone might have some suggestions?