From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 30 4:14:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F93C37B400 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 04:14:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [63.93.4.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECF6243E65 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 04:14:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost.wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6UBEGuF009824; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 05:14:16 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id g6UBEF2k009821; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 05:14:16 -0600 (MDT)?g (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 05:14:15 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Bishop Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB webcams....little help? In-Reply-To: <000c01c234a2$42675610$1885b9a3@nam.slb.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Bishop wrote: > So, now that I have my D-link DSB-C100 hooked up to my USB port (and > recognized as an OV511+ device in dmesg, and now that vid supposedly works > without any obvious errors, I'm now trying to determine where vid is placing > its captures (if it is capturing at all). > ...and here is the output of 'vid --help': > ------------------------------------------------ > t85web# vid --help > usage: vid [options] > Capture an image frame from an OV511/OV511+ based USB video camera > and write image data to standard output in PNM format ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ According to that, you should be able to say "vid > filename.pnm". But if you're not redirecting it to a file, you should see the output in the shell as a bunch of binary data. (Apparently; I don't have one of the devices in question.) -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message