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Without mencoder or ffmpeg you could make just a video stream, but it would be uncompressed and very large. This request of yours is like: I would like to bake a cake without flour and without an oven.
Your question is very unclear. One could say that you need a camera to make video :-)
-> MPlayer is to play video files.
-> Mencoder is to edit video files.
-> Both MPlayer and Mencoder do not need X to work fine (they can use, for example, framebuffer).
So you should compile your binaries without X. Additionally, you can reduce their size with upx (http://upx.sourceforge.net).
Your question is very unclear. One could say that you need a camera to make video :-)
-> MPlayer is to play video files.
-> Mencoder is to edit video files.
-> Both MPlayer and Mencoder do not need X to work fine (they can use, for example, framebuffer).
So you should compile your binaries without X. Additionally, you can reduce their size with upx (http://upx.sourceforge.net).
Good luck !
I would like to find a very lightweight solution that does not need mplayer nor ffmpeg which ask too much dependencies.
I even havent mpg321
I use only sox to make all raw to encoded low size ogg. Ogg is great, and you only need : apt-get install alsa sox and it has so little dependencies. Would be great to have sthg similar for video ... ( hopefully I got more nfos...)
Making videos requires a lot of drive space, both for the video of course and for the program(s) with related dependencies. There is no way getting around that. If only you had a larger hard drive you could add to your system you could have the program installed with your OS and use the larger drive for making and storing the video. You can use ffmpeg only. I don't know the Debian equivalent of Fedora method to install packages -- yum -- but whatever package installer/manager you use can download and install all dependencies for ffmpeg. I recommend ffmpeg, it has improved vastly through the years and now the command line options for ffmpeg are much simpler. And FAR simpler than mencoder. If you need help using ffmpeg other members and myself can walk you through that. But first you have to have that required drive space. If you're using a laptop for this you will need an external drive, maybe an 80gb SATA drive (these are not very expensive, eBay is a cheap alternative place to buy) in an enclosure and connects through a USB port. And of course if it's a PC it's just a simple matter of shutting down the PC and plugging in the drive. Keep us posted on your progress and don't be afraid to ask questions because everybody has to start SOMEWHERE. Good luck.
Making videos requires a lot of drive space, both for the video of course and for the program(s) with related dependencies. There is no way getting around that. If only you had a larger hard drive you could add to your system you could have the program installed with your OS and use the larger drive for making and storing the video. You can use ffmpeg only. I don't know the Debian equivalent of Fedora method to install packages -- yum -- but whatever package installer/manager you use can download and install all dependencies for ffmpeg. I recommend ffmpeg, it has improved vastly through the years and now the command line options for ffmpeg are much simpler. And FAR simpler than mencoder. If you need help using ffmpeg other members and myself can walk you through that. But first you have to have that required drive space. If you're using a laptop for this you will need an external drive, maybe an 80gb SATA drive (these are not very expensive, eBay is a cheap alternative place to buy) in an enclosure and connects through a USB port. And of course if it's a PC it's just a simple matter of shutting down the PC and plugging in the drive. Keep us posted on your progress and don't be afraid to ask questions because everybody has to start SOMEWHERE. Good luck.
thnk you
ffmpeg requires not so so much actually
Code:
~# apt-get install --no-install-recommends ffmpeg --download-only
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libavcodec52 libavdevice52 libavfilter0 libavformat52 libavutil49 libdc1394-22 libdirac-encoder0 libfaad2 libopenjpeg2 liborc-0.4-0 libpostproc51 libraw1394-11
libschroedinger-1.0-0 libspeex1 libswscale0 libtheora0 libusb-1.0-0
Suggested packages:
libraw1394-doc speex
The following NEW packages will be installed:
ffmpeg libavcodec52 libavdevice52 libavfilter0 libavformat52 libavutil49 libdc1394-22 libdirac-encoder0 libfaad2 libopenjpeg2 liborc-0.4-0 libpostproc51 libraw1394-11
libschroedinger-1.0-0 libspeex1 libswscale0 libtheora0 libusb-1.0-0
0 upgraded, 18 newly installed, 0 to remove and 30 not upgraded.
Need to get 11.3 MB of archives.
After this operation, 25.2 MB of additional disk space will be used.
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