Hello all - <br><br>Looking for some advice or insight. I know the electron club is a diverse group so fire away if any of you have any thoughts but perhaps someone may know of an appropriate *nix forum for this as well? Google hasn't given me a whole lot to play with. <br>
<br>I'm trying to capture frame grabs from usb/fire wire web cams via a bash script. So far I've run across this CLI app called VideoScript which looks promising. I know I could use PD to do such a thing, but the rest of my work flow is shaping up to be neatly wrapped up in one shell script. <br>
<br>I'm not as familiar with PD as I might like but I don't believe that I can control it strictly from the command line. - If you know otherwise I'd be happy to be corrected.<br><br>VideoScript (<a href="http://www.videoscript.com/">http://www.videoscript.com/</a>) has some interesting features but also some serious drawbacks:<br>
The free version only will capture jpgs at 50% quality.<br>The full version is $300<br>It hasn't seen an update or revision since 2005<br><br>Thoughts? I'd be even happier for something that worked with DV firewire steams (a wholly different data stream then firewire web cams) but finding something that did that seems even more of a stretch. <br>
<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Ben Rush<br><br><br><br>