Looking For Video Recording Solutions

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I don’t really have any particular trouble with my system, so I figured I would reach out to the general community on this one.

I’m not a video/audio editing production expert on this so I figured I would reach out to the general community to see if anyone has some ideas

So, I have Garuda XFCE loaded on my Micro$haft Surface Pro 9. The linux-surface kernal at this time doesn’t support the drivers of it’s onboard cameras. So I was looking at a couple of work arounds to this problem. I figured I would mount some of the following camera’s to my Mobile Demand protective case for the SP9 to get a camera working again:

Now, here is my problem…when I use the camera option in Windows 11, the SP9 records these really nice videos with audio in MP4 format and places them neatly in a video folder which it tries to upload to OneDrive.

However, when I use the SP9 in Garuda, all I have for video options are:

  1. Cheese - You get video and pictures but no audio
  2. Audacity - I get really nice audio recording but no video
  3. GPU Screen Recorder - This program would be perfect as it puts video and audio together but sadly only records my desktop

What I am looking for is a program that I can point to a USB camera that I have listed, point to the microphone of the SP9 (since it works so nicely) and make a video (preferably in MP4 format) and bind it to the audio coming in from the microphone just like the Windows camera app does.

Most of the web searches only seem to point me to desktop recorders like in option 3. Does anyone know of any linux programs that can do this?

Thanks

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It might be a bit more then you need but OBS will certaily do what you want.

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Interesting, looks like a bit of a learning curve on how to use

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this might help, you can select the input so simply add your webcam to the sources

sudo pacman -S webcamoid

Openshot Video Editor is excellent for video editing if you need to do that as well.

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Well this program works, loads, runs…but I can’t get it to record a video. I can take a picture, but not record a video. I have gone through all the settings to get what I want, but I can’t get it to actually record.

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Okay friend try running cheese and select that one as input!

or otherwise install vokoscreenNG, for then you can record your webcam through cheese

sudo pacman -S vokoscreenNG

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OBS is always the answer :slight_smile:

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It looks like it might be. It’s very interesting to work with.

The webcamoid seems to be what I might need as well, I just can’t get it to record video.

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Just learn to use OBS, it’s not that difficult and used by A LOT of people, regardless of Linux/Windows.

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Alright, will do

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