Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 17:15:32 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Tim Pozar <pozar@lns.com> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: an FXTV suggestion Message-ID: <200001060115.RAA36557@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Jan 2000 16:45:31 PST." <20000105164531.A88681@lns.com>
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> On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 02:08:02AM +0300, Alexei Khalimov wrote: > > 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... > > I did this way back when (~'93) with Sun's VideoPix video frame > grabber device (/dev/vfc0). Cron would launch the program every > minute and the code would then opened the device, set the format > (size, video format, color, etc), grab a frame and spit out a YUV > image. At that point I would run PBM to clean it up and spit out > a (then) GIF image. > > Is there something like a frame grabber device for the 848 cards > that could be managed in much the same manner? > Yes, and the driver is called bktr. someone can write a program to open the bktr grab a frame , compress the image, save it, mail it , ftp it or whatever. Cheers -- 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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