Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: > > Afternoon all, > > For the last couple days I've been trying to find out how to > import still images from /dev/video0 directly into the GIMP. Ideally, I'd > like to do this with a GIMP plugin rather than using some other app to > capture the images and then opening them in GIMP. > Someone pointed out to me that SANE has both a v4l frontend and > that xscanimage can act as a plugin to the GIMP. So I've downloaded and > installed SANE. And it does indeed see /dev/video0 as a legitimate > device. I can fire up GIMP and capture an image from /dev/video0. The > problem is that the image is quite corrupt. It looks like an interlace In Gimp, from the right button menu, try: Filters > Enhance > Deinterlace > related issue, with three separate copies of the image being displayed in > the same single capture (perhaps RGB?). The device is properly configured > (xawtv starts up with the correct image immediately, and, just in case, > I've been setting the device with v4lctl before each attempted capture. > Anyway, I realize this is probably more of a SANE issue than a v4l > issue. Unfortunately, no one on the SANE mailing list has responded, and > the original author of the v4l backend for SANE has posted on that mailing > list in a year or so. > If anyone can offer any advice on how to get SANE working > properly, or if someone knows of another v4l plugin for the GIMP, please > let me know. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Adam
