scriptable webcam software ?

[Bruce Marshall]

On Sunday 28 November 2004 01:58 am, Ted Ozolins wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
> > The tool that i've been using for the past 2 years, camsrv, to control
> > my Philips webcam no longer seems to work under FC3.  THe author's
> > email address is bouncing.
> >
> > So, i'm back to square one in trying to find a replacement tool.  I
> > want something that is scriptable, in other words, not an X app.  I
> > just need to use something that will take snapshots, preferable with
> > some degree of control over size, quality.
> >
> > Anyone have any recommendations?
>
> Maybe I'm thinking of the wrong webcam, but wasn't there an issue with
> some proprietary code that required a patch in the kernel that would
> hook to that code. Then because of GPL that hook was removed from the
> kernel. Your aplication might still work but You might have to aquire
> that bit of code. I use to have that post saved but alas have since
> deleted  it. Something to look into.
>
> Cheers.

http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/

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