First, your best bet would be to get a ccd that connected directly to the computer, and had settings for exposure time and all that. But that wouild require money, which none of us have ;) I would suggest you go to http://www.mplayerhq.hu and download mplayer. Mplayer can play a video file, or a v4l device and output it to screen, as ascii graphics, or (most importantly) as jpegs or pngs. Mplayer has very extensive documentation, but most of it is incredibly out of date... so in a nutshell, here's how you could use for capturing (of course adjusting for your video device, framesize, framerate, yadda yadda yadda) mplayer -vo jpeg -jpeg quality=100 tv:// -tv driver=v4l:device=/dev/v4l/video0:norm=ntsc:width=640:height=480:input=1:fps=10 This will give you a directory full of jpegs, untill your hd space runs out, or you quit the program. After that imagemagick would be the way to go for combiing the frames. However I'm not really that good with it, so I can't help there. Hope thats a good starting point. --Kyle --- Gregg Halliinan <gregghallinan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm a bit of a newbie to all this video4linux stuff > so any help would be greatly appreciated! I'm > running a CCD camera through a Pinnacle DC10 plus > frame grabber card with Xawtv as the interfacing > application. Although everything seems to be working > fine I am using this CCD camera as part of an > astronomical project which I'm currently working on > in college and I need to integrate the frames > grabbed each second into much brighter images which > are outputted every second (kind of like a long > exposure on regular photo film). Is there any > software out there which can be used to do this in > Linux??? > > Thanks in advance, > > Gregg Hallinan. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com
