Re: [Hampshire] Capturing snapshots from camera

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Author: Alan Pope
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Capturing snapshots from camera
2008/11/4 Brian Chivers <brian@???>:
> I have a camera with that has a composite video output that I'd like to use and a video input card
> (not sure if it linux compatible, if not I'll get one that is *grin*) but I'm not sure what software
> to use to do this.
>


webcam :)

It's a command line app which can be run with a basic config file to
grab an image either using a delay or when there is a significant
(configurable amount of) change in the image.

It can save the file locally and/or scp the file to a remote host.

Cheers
Al.