Re: [Mjpeg-users] How to take a shapshot from the dc30

2006-04-25 Thread Bernhard Praschinger
Hallo Sorry for writing so late. > > I have the Miro installed on my home server because I want to run a (low > > traffic) weather cam. Now I trying to find out howto to grab a jpg from > > /dev/video every 5 sec. The output jpg must be overwritten everytime, so > > I can show the actual weather

Re: [Mjpeg-users] How to take a shapshot from the dc30

2006-04-24 Thread Mark James
I have the Miro installed on my home server because I want to run a (low traffic) weather cam. Now I trying to find out howto to grab a jpg from /dev/video every 5 sec. The output jpg must be overwritten everytime, so I can show the actual weather online. Perhaps you can run xawtv and use xawt

Re: [Mjpeg-users] How to take a shapshot from the dc30

2006-04-24 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:13:14 +0200 Rob van Dam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also think this is the way to go. Is it possible to pipe lavrec > directly to lavtrans? (a hint how to do this would be very much > apreciated :) ) No. In some regards, the lavtools are somewhat limited. Lavtrans, for

Re: [Mjpeg-users] How to take a shapshot from the dc30

2006-04-24 Thread Rob van Dam
You could build something based on lavrec, set up for timelapse recording, limited to one frame per file, and a chain that process each of the grabbed files through lavtrans and either pnmtools or ImageMagick. Or you could try Motion, which has such a mode. http://motion.sourceforge.net/ Tha

Re: [Mjpeg-users] How to take a shapshot from the dc30

2006-04-24 Thread Rob van Dam
Rob van Dam wrote: When I try to take a shapshot from /dev/video I get the error message: DC30[0]: setup_window() - frame buffer has to be set first. Sorry for asking because this is in the FAQ. Taking shapshots over v4l is no option for me, because I need too much memory. Is there an othe

Re: [Mjpeg-users] How to take a shapshot from the dc30

2006-04-24 Thread Martin Samuelsson
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:23:36 +0200 Rob van Dam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have the Miro installed on my home server because I want to run a (low > traffic) weather cam. Now I trying to find out howto to grab a jpg from > /dev/video every 5 sec. The output jpg must be overwritten everytime, s

[Mjpeg-users] How to take a shapshot from the dc30

2006-04-24 Thread Rob van Dam
Because I couldn't find anything about an openbsd zoran driver, I switched to Debian stable on my server to get the Miro working. I had to switch to kernel 2.6 before everything worked allright. I have the Miro installed on my home server because I want to run a (low traffic) weather cam. Now