Gordon - thanks for that - MEncoder - I'll poke at it more, based on MPlayer/ffmpeg it looks like. <br><br>But it now occurs to me that I may have failed to mention something crucial:<br><br>I hadn't wanted to record a video file from the data stream - just open the camera stream and view it and intermittently record a jpeg frame grab. Im fairly sure that a grab out of a preexisting video file could be done with many of the FFmpg family. <br>
<br>getting in over me head (again) - ben rush<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/5/3 Gordon JC Pearce <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gordonjcp@gjcp.net">gordonjcp@gjcp.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 16:10 +0100, Ben Rush wrote:<br>
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> I'm trying to capture frame grabs from usb/fire wire web cams via a<br>
> bash script. So far I've run across this CLI app called VideoScript<br>
> which looks promising. I know I could use PD to do such a thing, but<br>
> the rest of my work flow is shaping up to be neatly wrapped up in one<br>
> shell script.<br>
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</div>Try mencoder.<br>
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Gordon<br>
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