This is a small tips to build a avi/divx/mpeg/what you want, with webcam as input in realtime. Simply use mencoder (the encoder build by the mplayer team)
mencoder tv:// -tv driver=v4l:width=160:height=120 -ovc divx4 -o test.avi
Take care, that you should respect the width/height of the current webcam settings.
Hi there… do you know if there’s a way to specify a time limit for encoding?
What do you mean exactly ?
Want to make .mpeg from webcam captures.Possible?