Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 15:45:47 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Alexei Khalimov <lesha@mos.net> Cc: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: an FXTV suggestion Message-ID: <200001052345.PAA36126@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Jan 2000 02:08:02 %2B0300." <3873CED1.22BD498F@mos.net>
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Is really is not that hard to code a simple webcam app in fact the the linux distribution for xawtv provides such an application and it shouldn't be that hard to port to FreeBSD if you must do the minimal amount of programming. The video capture drivers in FreeBSD have been around for 3 or 4 years and I think is surprising that no one in the group has come up with one and I am not referring to the folks which are contributing such as Randall. I think the problem is not that we don't have a webcam app is rather why are people not writing one or making one avaliable. > Randall Hopper wrote: > > > What you want is a batch capture tool. What Fxtv is is an interactive GUI > > application. These should be a separate apps. > > > > [[ I've seen this discussion before, with other tools. First is the > > request for batch capabilities, then the complaint from someone else that > > doesn't even run X that they have to have X installed (allocate disk space > > for it, download the packages, etc.), not just to compile their batch app, > > but to run it. The complaint is certainly justified. ]] > > > > Well, I would be happy with something like > fxtv -batchsave /tmp/webcam.ppm -period 60 > which will save single frame to that file every 60sec > or save one and exit when called without -period > (all this without starting GUI) > > it should not be hard to code it... > > > > Randall > > -- > Alexei Khalimov | lesha@mos.net > lead backbone engineer | 7-095-9462114 > Moscow Residental Internet | http://www.mos.net/ > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message -- Amancio Hasty hasty@rah.star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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