Sending A V4L Camera Device Output Over SSH

Capture Video To File

$ ffmpeg -an -f video4linux2 -s 640x480 -i /dev/video0 -r 10 -b:v 500k -f matroska out.mks

Option	Description
-an	Disable audio
-f video4linux2	Force format to video4linux2. Apparently this for the next file (-i) mentioned on the commandline.
-s 640x480	Frame size 640x480
-i /dev/video0	Input file be /dev/video0
-r 10	Frame rate 10 Hz
-b:v 500k	Video bitrate 500k
-f matroska	Force format to matroska (next file mentioned is out.mks)

Play Video From Remote System, Using SSH

See also

• SSH: Basics

• If ffmpeg sees - (instead of out.mks) as output file, then it uses stdout.

• Same holds for mplayer, it then uses stdin

$ ssh USER@REMOTE 'ffmpeg -an -f video4linux2 -s 640x480 -i /dev/video0 -r 10 -b:v 500k -f matroska -' | mplayer -