Re: time lapse feature

[Patryk Zawadzki <patrys pld-linux org>]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:10 AM,  <A J Delaney brighton ac uk> wrote:
> I hacked up a Cheese patch to support timelapse:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581997
> However, I don't think this patch achieves timelapse in a sane way.  So
> I've got a proposal as to how I think I should implement timelapse in a
> more sane manner.  However, the patch shows that Cheese can successfully
> do timelapse.

It's not a pretty solution. I think this sort of functionality belongs
in a proper gstreamer element. This would let it do other potentially
useful things like detect movement and only encode frames that are
significantly different or even add subtitles stream/overlay with date
and time.

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Patryk Zawadzki