From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 9 19:05:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A9B016A418 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 19:05:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd01@dgmm.net) Received: from lon-mail-4.gradwell.net (lon-mail-4.gradwell.net [193.111.201.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7221743D73 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 19:05:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd01@dgmm.net) Received: from lon-mail-4.gradwell.net ([193.111.201.130] helo=webmaker country=GB ident=dave&pop3^dgmm$net) by lon-mail-4.gradwell.net with esmtpa (Gradwell gwh-smtpd 1.218) id 4489c678.6f8e.1d for freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 20:05:28 +0100 (envelope-sender ) From: dgmm To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 20:05:24 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <1149872865.726.8.camel@pc-racine1.mcmaster.ca> In-Reply-To: <1149872865.726.8.camel@pc-racine1.mcmaster.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606092005.24671.freebsd01@dgmm.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000, pwc driver, & webcam software... X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 19:05:39 -0000 On Friday 09 June 2006 18:07, Jeffrey Racine wrote: > So, is anyone aware of software for still & motion image capture that > indeed works with the bwc driver? I'm only just beginning to get into still image capture with FreeBSD myself so my suggestion might not be of use depending on the application you have in mind and the cameras you are using but... I'm using gphoto2 with a USB webcam which grabs images from some cameras. In my case it's a cheap USB digital camera/webcam which is seen as an Argus DC-1510. gphoto2 is capable of capturing a low res 320x240 "preview" image from on demand. With other cameras it might be possible to get it to take a photo at the full resolution but it appears not to be the case with most "umass" type cameras. On a 3.2GHz P4 it takes a couple or three seconds to grab the image and save it to disk so motion with this camera (and probably gphoto too) is out of the question. It might be quicker with USB2.0 though. I do have a very nice 3am to 11pm video of my back yard at 25fps with images taken approx every 30 seconds though :-) -- Dave