Re: how to take a snapshot from the command line?

From: Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>
To: gkraft gnome org
Cc: cheese-list gnome org
Subject: Re: how to take a snapshot from the command line?
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:16:49 +0200

Am 26.02.2010 18:47, schrieb George Kraft:
> Is there a way to "take a photo" from the command line without opening
> the desktop application?
> 
> $ cheese --snapshot --delay 1 --outfile $HOME/Pictures/failedlogin.jpg
> 

sleep 1s;gst-launch-0.10 v4l2src num-buffers=1 ! jpegenc ! filesink \
location=$HOME/Pictures/failedlogin.jpg

on recent gstreamer you can use autovideosrc instead of v4l2src

Stefan

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