Re: Bug#513575: ITP: fswebcam -- Tiny and flexible webcam program
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 03:47:10PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 15:23 +0100, Luca Niccoli wrote:
> > 2009/1/30 Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>:
> >
> > > how many of those do we need? why this one in particular?
> >
> > I've been looking in Debian for a command line tool that takes
> > pictures from a USB video capture device that doesn't support MJPEG,
> > and couldn't find one (besides mplayer - but in a really hackish way);
> > fswebcam does (it accepts input in a number of formats).
> [snip list of fswebcam features]
>
> Thanks, that replies to my question :)
> Maybe that this kind of things ("why is this not already addressed by an
> existing package?") should be part of most ITPs...
And, in any case, please do put (a summary of) that list in the
package's description. Your users will be most pleased.
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