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How to capture a picture from the webcam? #3

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slopjong opened this issue Oct 19, 2012 · 0 comments

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slopjong commented Oct 19, 2012

How to capture picture from V4L2 webcam?
camshot
fswebcam
cheese (has gnome requirements)
VLC silent capture of video or snapshots from a webcam
Take picture from webcam using linux command line (bash)
Ubuntu: webcam
webcam-xlib-shm.c

MPlayer:

mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0 -vo png -frames 1
mplayer -really-quiet -vo png:outdir=/tmp/slock/spy.png -frames 1 tv://

MPlayer is not reliable. It makes trouble with some webcams e.g. the Syntek AVStream USB2.0 1.3M WebCam - Product ID 0x6A33.

Handling jpeg:

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