RFS: fswebcam
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "fswebcam", a command line
program to take pictures from a webcam.
It's a small package, so it shouldn't take long to check (grin)
I find the program really handy, taking pictures from a webcam is
easier, neater than ever, and most importantly, It Works(tm), and it
does it out-of-the-box (all the similar programs I have tried in
Debian don't work with cheap webcams that don't support MJPEG).
It's very easily scriptable, which is why I looked at it in the first
place: if you want to take a picture of yourself every time you turn
on your
laptop, just to turn back when your 50+ and see how uglier you've got
with time, this is all you need...
I've been in contact with upstream and he's very responsive; a new
version is supposed to be released sometimes in 2009.
* Package name : fswebcam
Version : 20070108-2
Upstream Author : Philip Heron <phil@firestorm.cx>
* URL : http://www.firestorm.cx/fswebcam/
* License : GPLv2
Section : graphics
It builds these binary packages:
fswebcam - Tiny and flexible webcam program
Fswebcam is a tiny and flexible webcam command-line program for capturing
images from a V4L1/V4L2 device. It accepts a number of formats, can skip
the first (possibly bad) frames before performing the actual capture, and
can perform simple manipulation on the captured image, such as resizing,
averaging multiple frames or overlaying a caption or an image.
The package appears to be lintian clean and builds with pdebuild.
The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/fswebcam
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main
contrib non-free
- dget
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/fswebcam/fswebcam_20070108-2.dsc
I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.
Kind regards
Luca Niccoli
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