User:Ixo/Project/Webcam

(per User:Sethwoodworth#Stop-motion)

I was just thinking of something similar the other day. "xoWebcam" -- Linux 'xawtv'/webcam package sugarized w/GUI. It's got frame capture capabilities built in, with total control of 'motion activated' and sequencing. Just need to find a good/lite package for putting frames into a movie format :-) ( 01:29, 16 January 2008 (EST))

Notes

• how difficult to install xawtv (footprint?)

Note: Not difficult to install, see xawtv notes. -- 2/17/2008

Some fonts are missing, preventing startup. . .

• can call from Sugar ?
• Put entries in crontab for capture ?
• Can run it without Activity active ? (if so, what happens in conflict of Record?)

Hardware notes

$ xawtv -hwscan

This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/i586 (2.6.22-20080211.1.olpc.9f4e619336a08dc)
looking for available devices

port 56-56
    type : Xvideo, image scaler
    name : AMD Geode LX
 
/dev/video0: OK                         [ -device /dev/video0 ]
    type : v4l2
    name : cafe_ccic
    flags:  capture