Rép. : [K12OSN] Capturing snapshots from camera
Brian Chivers
brian at portsmouth-college.ac.uk
Tue Nov 4 13:54:03 UTC 2008
Problem is that the webcams don't have the sort of lens that we'd need.
I'm looking at a package called "webcam" that's part of xawtv at the mo to see if that'll do it.
Brian
Guy-Michel Lessard wrote:
> My gut feeling is do'nt touch that, get a Linux compatible webcam. It
> will be a lot less hassle. I'm sure there will be members here that can
> suggest easy to get compatible webcams.
>
>
> >>> Brian Chivers <brian at portsmouth-college.ac.uk> 2008-11-04 06:47:24 >>>
> I've been asked to setup a camera over looking our College's playing
> field to capture an image every
> 30 minutes so we can see how much it is being used.
>
> I have a camera with that has a composite video output that I'd like to
> use and a video input card
> (not sure if it linux compatible, if not I'll get one that is *grin*)
> but I'm not sure what software
> to use to do this.
>
> Not worried about motion sensing just need a jpg or something every X
> minutes
>
> Does anyone do this ? Any ideas or pointer where to start.
>
> Thanks
> Brian Chivers
> Portsmouth College
>
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