From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Jan 5 16:39:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from zeus.tassie.net.au (zeus.tassie.net.au [203.57.213.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2A9014FB0 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 16:39:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott@tassie.net.au) Received: from ante (ante.hbt.off.tassie.net.au [203.57.212.22]) by zeus.tassie.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA04256; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 11:37:25 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <4.3.0.20.20000106101648.00cc9bf0@imap.tassie.net.au> X-Sender: scott@imap.tassie.net.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.0.20 (Beta) Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 11:04:07 +1100 To: Amancio Hasty , Alexei Khalimov From: Scott Donovan Subject: Re: an FXTV suggestion Cc: Randall Hopper , multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200001052345.PAA36126@rah.star-gate.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi folks, At 03:45 PM 1/5/00 -0800, Amancio Hasty wrote: >Is really is not that hard to code a simple webcam app in fact the >the linux distribution for xawtv provides such an application and >it shouldn't be that hard to port to FreeBSD if you must do the >minimal amount of programming. I hope I am not contributing to the melee, however I have used 2 different approaches. 1) running FXTV as an x process and then using the xwindows capture function of the image magick convert program to grab the image and a quick perl hack to do the ftp'ing etc. 2) I had an old version of the webcam.c that was on the telepresence site and after a little bit of dodgy c coding got the bt848 capture working (most of the time). and again use of quick perl hack gave me the ftping/archiving etc. The good news is this worked the bad news is, I have no idea where I put the source .. Both solutions were ugly but they were sitting on p90 machines in cupboards, roof spaces etc and they vary rarely went bang (a couple of PS failures). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message