From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Jan 5 15:10:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from noc-1Gbps-FDDI.core.mos.net (nikulino-online.rmt.ru [194.67.160.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98EED15481 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 15:10:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lesha@mos.net) Received: from thunder-1Gbps-FDDI.core.mos.net (thunder-1Gbps-FDDI.core.mos.net [194.67.174.130]) by noc-1Gbps-FDDI.core.mos.net (8.8.8/8.8.8-R1.1-lesha) with ESMTP id CAA06923; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 02:08:29 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from lesha@mos.net) Received: from mos.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thunder-1Gbps-FDDI.core.mos.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAA89372; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 02:08:03 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from lesha@mos.net) Message-ID: <3873CED1.22BD498F@mos.net> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 02:08:02 +0300 From: Alexei Khalimov Organization: MOSnet (http://www.mos.net/) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Randall Hopper Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: an FXTV suggestion References: <38718545.451AE46F@mos.net> <20000105171550.A14765@ipass.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Randall Hopper wrote: > What you want is a batch capture tool. What Fxtv is is an interactive GUI > application. These should be a separate apps. > > [[ I've seen this discussion before, with other tools. First is the > request for batch capabilities, then the complaint from someone else that > doesn't even run X that they have to have X installed (allocate disk space > for it, download the packages, etc.), not just to compile their batch app, > but to run it. The complaint is certainly justified. ]] > Well, I would be happy with something like fxtv -batchsave /tmp/webcam.ppm -period 60 which will save single frame to that file every 60sec or save one and exit when called without -period (all this without starting GUI) it should not be hard to code it... > Randall -- Alexei Khalimov | lesha@mos.net lead backbone engineer | 7-095-9462114 Moscow Residental Internet | http://www.mos.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message