Hello! I was wondering if anyone could help me out by recommending a good program to take a picture with a web cam. What we are doing is we have a D-Link C100 usb web cam set up and pointed at a ketchup packet sculpture. We then set up a cron job that takes a picture using the streamer command and uploads the image to a website every hour. The problem is that in streamer the image is of serverly poor quality and we are looking for a replacement. We are pretty sure that it is streamer that is killing the image since in xawtv the webcam looks great. TIA! Daniel
On Thursday 27 May 2004 12:49, Daniel Purdy wrote:
Hello! I was wondering if anyone could help me out by recommending a good program to take a picture with a web cam. What we are doing is we have a D-Link C100 usb web cam set up and pointed at a ketchup packet sculpture. We then set up a cron job that takes a picture using the streamer command and uploads the image to a website every hour. The problem is that in streamer the image is of serverly poor quality and we are looking for a replacement. We are pretty sure that it is streamer that is killing the image since in xawtv the webcam looks great. TIA!
Daniel
Camstream or Motion will probably do what you want. Just look them up in sourceforge.net . Camstream will do the ftp uploading, motion I don't think does that, but it's meant for network cameras or something like that. John --
On Thursday 27 May 2004 13:49, Daniel Purdy wrote:
I was wondering if anyone could help me out by recommending a good program to take a picture with a web cam.
Camstream! http://www.smcc.demon.nl/camstream/ This has always been my favorite webcam app for Linux IF it works. I've had mixed results with the tarballs from there. Sometimes they won't even compile. Sometimes they do, but some features don't work. I got tired of the problems and stopped using it. Then I found a SuSE rpm on Packman that works great on 9.1: http://packman.links2linux.org/?action=328 Of course you can always use the old standby, webcam, which really is quite decent except you don't have a nice window to view the cam while it is doing the captures. Webcam should be included in xawtv. I know in Mandrake they have some kind of xawtv "extras" package that includes webcam, but I believe in SuSE if you install xawtv you automatically have webcam. My cams on this page are running on webcam: http://home.earthlink.net/~bryantyson/techoffc.htm Bryan ******************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional KDE 3.1.1 KMail 1.5.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson@earthlink.net ********************************************************
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