Time Lapse with a Webcam

[Thom Paine]

Actually I only have a black screen. I got camE working and that looks
like what I need to use to take the snap shots.

Anyone know what resolution I should be using for my camera to use it
to it's max potential?

Will it do 640x480?

Thanks.


On 4/20/07, Tony <pthagonal at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/20/07, Tony <pthagonal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 4/20/07, Thom Paine <painethom at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I think I have my webcam working on FC6. It is one of the X10 ones
> > > using the VA11A usb ones.
> > >
> > > Is there something I can try taking a capture with this this cam? I
> > > see it detecting in /var/log/messages, but I'm not sure how to take a
> > > picture with it or activate it.
> >
> > I'm on CentOS these days not FC but similar enough to be worth an
> > answer. I use quickcam PRO 4000 webcams which use the pwc kernel
> > driver with no messing around. For capturing I used to use a program
> > simply called webcam that was part of xawtv, but now I use camE
> > instead. Handily camE is packaged by Dag Wieers for FC for you (and I
> > use his el4 version, thanks Dag!):
> >
> > http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/camE/
>
> Oops, sorry - that only goes as far as FC3. Not much idea why it has
> not been built for later FC versions- has it become part of the main
> distribution?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tony
>
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