From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Oct 27 22:32:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from fleming.cs.strath.ac.uk (fleming.cs.strath.ac.uk [130.159.196.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1361F14EC1 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 22:32:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roger@cs.strath.ac.uk) Received: from cs.strath.ac.uk (scary.dmem.strath.ac.uk [130.159.202.5]) by fleming.cs.strath.ac.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA01207 Thu, 28 Oct 1999 06:31:44 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <3817D9D1.F2A8297B@cs.strath.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 06:06:25 +0100 From: Roger Hardiman Organization: Strathclyde University X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: crh@outpost.co.nz Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Webcam (was Re: Bt848 based server) References: <19991028042135.9A6FC14D4D@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Craig > I'd like to make a single C program that uses libjpeg to output a > suitable file for a web page Amancio wrote a program like this and I have a copy of the source. I'll dig it out for you. > plus look at using a continuous video stream from the bktr driver > rather than the single frame grabs aah, if only I could let you use my video codecs. :-( You can see an example of low bitrate streaming video at http://ww.telepresence.strath.ac.uk Goto to the JavaCam link. As the player is Java, it works best on a Windows box (with JIT) or a very fast CPU. > as you'll notice from our webcam results in some image stability > problems. I noticed this myself too. Unfortunatly I do not have a fix yet. Best option is to limit grab sizes to less than half the TV resolution. For PAL, grab images less than 288 pixels high. For NTSC grab images less than 240 pixels high. This removes the interlacing (jagged edges) problems. Cheers Roger To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message