Controlling frame rate of video stored to a file w/ cvlc

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Controlling frame rate of video stored to a file w/ cvlc

Postby gboy » 14 Jul 2016 16:42

I'm capturing video clips with my local camera (it's a Raspberry Pi camera) by using the cvlc command line interface. Prior to capturing the video clip, I set the frame-rate of my camera to 10 frames-pre-second. The base command I'm using to capture video clips is as follows:

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cvlc --no-audio \ v4l2:///dev/video0 \ --v4l2-width 1920 \ --v4l2-height 1440 \ --v4l2-chroma MJPG \ --run-time=10 \ --sout file/ogg:/tmp/stream_v01.mpg \ vlc://quit
The file saves and plays back ok in VLC. However, when I view the file's Codec information in VLC, it reports a frame rate of 25 FPS. I have tried to control the rate at which the video is written by adding specifiers to the above command. (In desperation!), I have tried each of the following 12 specifiers:
  • --sout-transcode-fps=10
    --vc1-fps=10
    --sub-fps=10
    --rawvid-fps=10
    --mjpeg-fps=10
    --image-fps=10
    --h264-fps=10
    --es-fps=10
    --shm-fps=10
    --screen-fps=10
    --vdr-fps=10
    --imem-fps=10
To no avail. Each one, when I view its Codec Information in VLC reports 25 FPS. How do I control cvlc to write video to a file with the same frame-rate as the input video stream?

Or, is it possible that I'm using VLC incorrectly to gauge the frame rate? Is there a way to check each clip independent of VLC for the effective frame rate? e.g. Can I back out the total clip length and the number of frames present in each clip so that I may calculate an approximate frame rate?

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