Re: [Hampshire] Capturing snapshots from camera

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Author: Alan Pope
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Capturing snapshots from camera
2008/11/4 Brian Chivers <brian@???>:
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> :-)
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> Any idea where on the web to find out more ?
>


root@bishop:~# apt-cache show webcam
Package: webcam
Priority: extra
Section: universe/net
Installed-Size: 112
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu@???>
Original-Maintainer: Krzysztof Burghardt <krzysztof@???>
Architecture: i386
Source: xawtv
Version: 3.95.dfsg.1-8ubuntu1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1), libjpeg62, xawtv-plugins (= 3.95.dfsg.1-8ubuntu1)
Recommends: ftp, ssh
Filename: pool/universe/x/xawtv/webcam_3.95.dfsg.1-8ubuntu1_i386.deb
Size: 38208
MD5sum: f5bf8dbbb75688d3154093221b4a624f
SHA1: bc0f4353acf56ae14582b40803c4996e64f82dcb
SHA256: 3046a70b2e220dca8738b2088cd9f6b40a117be16c659d332f1d5c345659dfce
Description: image grabber and uploader
This package provides an utility that captures images from a
video4linux device such as bttv, annotates them and uploads them to a
webserver in an endless loop using FTP or SSH.
Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com
Origin: Ubuntu

Note it's part of xawtv from that path..

> just done a google for webcam / debian and got LOADS of hits, presuming it's a debian package as
> it's you saying about it :-)
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Google + xawtv = http://linux.bytesex.org/xawtv/
Google + xawtv + webcam = http://www.seismo.ethz.ch/linux/webcam.html

See section 3 about configuring webcam.

Cheers,
Al.