Thanks guys, I'll give it a try and report back! Gregg. --- Mark Charter <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 it is incredibly out of date...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 > > > -- > video4linux-list mailing list > Unsubscribe > mailto:video4linux-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus - For a better Internet experience http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/yplus/yoffer.html
