I was experimenting with capturing some video recently using a standard program like Amcap to read the USB port that has a capture device (like a web cam). The only output format is AVI.
Now with this format the disk space usage is about 10 megabytes per second of video. That equates to about 36 gigabytes per hour.
Are they kidding when they say this is the most universal format? Who would want to use that much space especially for a security camera? A security camera often has to run 24/7 and that means in just 24 hours it would use 864 gigabytes.
But let's say it's half that, 432 gigabytes. For 24 hours that means in 2 or 3 days it would use up a whole terabyte of disk space.
There must be a better way which is also commonplace. I cant be the only one on earth that thinks this is way bad.
Now with this format the disk space usage is about 10 megabytes per second of video. That equates to about 36 gigabytes per hour.
Are they kidding when they say this is the most universal format? Who would want to use that much space especially for a security camera? A security camera often has to run 24/7 and that means in just 24 hours it would use 864 gigabytes.
But let's say it's half that, 432 gigabytes. For 24 hours that means in 2 or 3 days it would use up a whole terabyte of disk space.
There must be a better way which is also commonplace. I cant be the only one on earth that thinks this is way bad.