Re: USB camera prog ?
On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Renaud OLGIATI
> <renaud@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> wrote:
>> I am looking for a prog that will display on screen, and save, pictures taken with a USB camera connected to the box.
>>
>> Better obviously with a GUI; but I do not care to install a load of Gnome or KDE bloat.
>>
>> Any idea, advice, etc ?
>
> You mean, you are willing to use bloated gnome and/or kde apps?
>
> Any ways, an alternative is to have sw that mounts your camera, and
> then sw to view images once their storage is mounted.
>
> If you don't use gnome, neither gvfs (which automates mounting), what
> I recommend for mounting usb camera storage is "gphotofs", which can
> as well be auto mounted/unmounted in combination with "autofs".
>
> And for watching the pictures, there are lots of sw, and one simple
> and light one is "xzgv", or "gtksee" (I don't know if gtksee is
> abandoned these days).
Misunderstood completely, you're looking for snapshots from connected
camera, like a webcamk, :-) My bad.
Forget what I just wrote, :-)
--
Javier
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