Webcam Frame Grabber?

linuxpyro · 01-06-2005, 06:34 PM

Hello, I'm running a Webcam on Fedora Core 1. Right now I use Camstream to upload an image to my site, but I don't want to have to run the GUI. I would rather use a simple command line tool that I could run as a daemon in the background. I have Googled around, but have not found much.

One package I have been looking at is called Webcam. I have not been able to find where to download it. Anyone have any ideas? It's mentioned in this Debain tutorial. Anyone know where I can get it?

Thanks for any ideas.

mattl · 03-06-2005, 01:06 PM

yea that package is in the vfl packages.. (video 4 linux)
ive used it for about a year.. just recently upped to suse 9.2 and have it up again.. i think its actually v4l2, obviously just grab the newest.. im trying to figure how to have it run in the background i had it before but can't remember what i did..

anyhow it works great for me.. good luck!

Komakino · 03-06-2005, 01:18 PM

I use qcam to take a shot and I wrote a perl script to run it every 15 minutes, timestamp the filename and upload to my website. I also use gozer to write the timestamp on the image.

Kabuto · 05-16-2005, 09:10 AM

If you use emerge --search webcam on your gentoo system, I'm sure you can get some results.

dazz · 06-02-2005, 04:02 AM

Hello Komakino

I have a Logitech Express Webcam and Redhat 9. I'd like to set up a webcam at a Kart racing track on the end of a telephone line to upload stills to the website every 15-30minutes. At this stage, I am still setting up mgetty and I haven't got to the webcam end yet. Any chance of getting some further details/script/config that I might be able to use?

I am a Linux Newbie....

Cle · 07-08-2005, 09:27 PM

Hi Linuxpyro,

Try section 4:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Webcam-HOWTO/

dr_zayus69 · 07-09-2005, 07:39 AM

you might want to play around with a program called motion. i didn't play around with it too much but it will only record when it senses motion. There were a lot of other command line options so im sure you could customize it for your needs.

dazz · 07-09-2005, 04:36 PM

Thanks for the tips.

I'm using a command line program called Linuxcam (forked from videodog). It does exactly what I want. The only problem I am having is with the auto-exposure control of the Logitech webcam express. It doesn't seem to work very well. This seems to be a driver/webcam issue rather than with Linuxcam.