Bug#513575: ITP: fswebcam -- Tiny and flexible webcam program
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).
It can skip an arbitrary number of frames before recording one - an
essential feature for both the webcams I've tried, since the first few
frames are crap.
It can record an arbitrary number of frames, then average them and
output just one picture, which is handy if you have a cheap device
that produces a lot of noise.
It can perform some easy manipulation on the images directly.
It's really good for scripts.
It doesn't need an X server.
It's small and easy.
And all this in 143k installed.
If I missed a tool with these features, please give me some pointers...
Cheers,
Luca
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