Re: programmatically take pictures?

[yosoy <sixmilliondollardan gmail com>]

motion is a really good program for this as well.
or zoneminder.

-d


imwutieet
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there i are have many a angles hard to time the choosing story, one.




On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Luciana Fujii Pontello
<luciana fujii eti br> wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-07-10 at 13:38 -0700, Matthew Brush wrote:
>> On 07/10/11 12:55, Steve Isaacson wrote:
>> > Is it possible to programmatically take pictures with Cheese? That is,
>> > without having a user Click a button.
>> >
>> > I ask because I'm thinking about using it for security purposes. For
>> > example, to take a snapshot every five minutes.
>> >
>> > If it's not currently possible, I'll download the source code and take a
>> > look.
>
> I don't think that is possible, but you can use libcheese for that. For
> doing something similar to the GStreamer pipeline, you can create a
> cheese-camera and call cheese_camera_take_photo every five minutes. But
> if you want to use cheese UI too, you can probably change it easily to
> take a picture every five minutes. I think some people have used burst
> mode for that before.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Luciana Fujii
>
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