See FINAL EDIT.
I need to capture the second monitor and show in main display in a small window. I don't need quality, but performance.
So, the (working) command to capture second monitor of 1280x1024 and show it in a 640x480 window at 15fps and horizonatally flipped, would be (from askUbuntu):
avconv -f x11grab -r 15 -s 1280x1024 -i :0.1 -c:v mpeg4 \
-b:v 1000k -s 640x480 -vf "hflip" -f avi - | avplay -i -
- How to scale with "None" interpolation?
- I used "-c:v mpeg4" and "-b:v 1000k" to have a good image quality, but... is there any other format/bitrate to reduce at minimum the CPU consumption?
- I know that horizontal flipping is a basic effect, but is there any way to tell avconv to reduce CPU by using -vf option?
- When the playing window stars showing, its 15fps is respected. But then, it gets lower and lower progresively to gets freezed... until I click the window. Then, it is rises to 15fps and gets lower again. Why it is like this and how to avoid it? I tried to use "nice -n-20" with both avconv and avplay, but it makes no difference.
When I say that I need performance, not quality, I say that it's more important to save CPU... but I don't want to see a full-of-low-compression-artifacts video.
I'm on Ubuntu-Mate 14.04.
Thanks!
FINAL EDIT: the command would be:
avconv -f x11grab -r 30 -s 1280x1024 -i :0.0+1920 -c:v mpeg4 \
-b:v 1000k -vf "hflip" -vf "scale=640:480" -sws_flags "neighbor" \
-f avi - | avplay -i -
But the framerate issue is not solved and it consumes 16-18% CPU. In this question, there is the Gstreamer option, with gst-launch: it consumes 2-4% CPU. So, the avconvert/avplay option is not usefull for me.