Kyle Schmitt writes: > 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 it is incredibly out of date...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. > convert -average file0 file1 file2 ... should do it. convert is part of the ImageMagick package. Mark Charter > > --- 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 > > > -- > video4linux-list mailing list > Unsubscribe mailto:video4linux-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
