I want to make a setup where a user can sit down, press a button, which starts a recording which is then put in a directory from which a second machine then selects a recording and plays it onto a screen.
Now I’ve got the recording and writing of the avi working but I’ve got a couple of questions:
- How do I append the filename so that it keeps adding a number to the end of the name, so that new recordings don’t overwrite old ones.
- What codec does the writer use if any, and is it possible to change this?
If it’s not possible to change the codec,is there a workaround? I want to take the recordings, recode them to a different codec so that the HD doesn’t fill up as fast.