| v4l2 webcam software? |
I have a fancy Logitech 2 megapixel auto focusing webcam which uses the UVC USB class. The camera is well supported by the linux kernel (via the uvcvideo) module, but for some reason there still seem to be very few video4linux2 user space programs out there. Not even my own ancient code for video4linux works. So, before I have to go and port my code to v4l2, does anyone have a recommendation for a command line tool which will capture single frames from a UVC webcam for me?
posted at: 23:55 | path: /linux | permanent link to this entry
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#1
Brad Hards
Don't be lazy - write your own (or at least port it):
http://lwn.net/Articles/287911/
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#2
TimC
ekiga and xawtv seem to work on my uvcvideo v4l2 camera. The latter can do screenshots. Mind you, I had to patch xawtv, and then held it at the current version, because even though the changelogs claimed that they incorporated the patches (debian bug #444447, 444449), it still didn't (didn't) seem to work, and I haven't followed it up further.
The version I am using is: Version: 3.95.dfsg.1-7
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#3
rob
Debian has a package called "webcam", which appears to be part of xawtv. I call it from cron to take snapshots every couple of seconds and upload them to my website. I can think of a few ways it would be nicer, but it does the job for now.