Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
>
> Afternoon all,
>
> For the last couple days I've been trying to find out how to
> import still images from /dev/video0 directly into the GIMP. Ideally, I'd
> like to do this with a GIMP plugin rather than using some other app to
> capture the images and then opening them in GIMP.
> Someone pointed out to me that SANE has both a v4l frontend and
> that xscanimage can act as a plugin to the GIMP. So I've downloaded and
> installed SANE. And it does indeed see /dev/video0 as a legitimate
> device. I can fire up GIMP and capture an image from /dev/video0. The
> problem is that the image is quite corrupt. It looks like an interlace
In Gimp, from the right button menu, try:
Filters > Enhance > Deinterlace
> related issue, with three separate copies of the image being displayed in
> the same single capture (perhaps RGB?). The device is properly configured
> (xawtv starts up with the correct image immediately, and, just in case,
> I've been setting the device with v4lctl before each attempted capture.
> Anyway, I realize this is probably more of a SANE issue than a v4l
> issue. Unfortunately, no one on the SANE mailing list has responded, and
> the original author of the v4l backend for SANE has posted on that mailing
> list in a year or so.
> If anyone can offer any advice on how to get SANE working
> properly, or if someone knows of another v4l plugin for the GIMP, please
> let me know. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Adam
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