Webcam question

[Pietro Abate]

You can also have a look at the vidcat implementation or try something
like
vidcat | xv  -maxpect -root -quit +noresetroot -rmode 5 -
to get an image. 

p
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:51:53AM +1000, Michael Still wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Pietro Abate wrote:
> 
> > I think you have to use /dev/video to access the camera.
> > It uses video4linux API and should not be too difficult to pull
> > the latest image from the webcam in a raw format.
> 
> Hmmm. I was hoping to just read a bitmap from the dev filesystem, as
> opposed to having to use the API.
> 
> Oh well, thanks for your help.
> 
> Mikal
> 
> -- 
> 
> Michael Still (mikal at stillhq.com)     UMT+10hrs

-- 
pgp key: 1024D/8A091922 2000-10-18 
Pietro Abate <abateNoMoReSpAm at students.cs.unibo.it>
Key fingerprint = 5111 D91B 5E0C 5CE6 FDA3  5EF4 6120 E18E 8A09 1922
public key avalaible via public key server at wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net