Thanks Hans,
Although not exactly what I was looking for, your reply
got me on the right path. I found a number: camE, camsource, gqcam, etc.
camE seems the best for me, especially since it can operate as a true
server with no X, which all the others seem to require (correct me if
I'm wrong).
And I actually got camE to work! Very exciting. First time I've made a
webcam image myself.
However, when camE is running, my system slows to a crawl. I've tried to
set parameters to slow things down, thinking that too high a framerate
is the problem, but even at a very low framerate the system is
so slow that if I hit a key in a
shell, I get a response in about 5 minutes. Yes, that's minutes.
Any ideas?
Michael
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 01:29:23 -0800 (PST)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd like to be able to stream video from the webcam. I don't need full
tv quality - even a jpeg every second or so will be fine. Trouble is,
all the software I've found so far assumes X and many other heavy
libraries. All I want is to capture jpeg images - I could write the
TCP/IP server part myself.
try out mplayer. You'll probably want to reduce its features to a
minimum. Maybe you're better off compiling it from source yourself,
circumventing portage. You'll want support for v4l(2) and jpeg.
OTOH, there's VLC. This may be a good bet, too. It's specifically
designed to do this kind of job.
-hwh
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