Re: commandline driven snapshot from videodevice

> David Fuhr wrote:
>> Am Mittwoch, 12. Mai 2004 00:15 schrieb [email protected]:
>>
>>>*** Reply to message from David Fuhr <[email protected]> on Tue, 11
>>>May 2004 23:29:22 +0200***
>>>
>>>
>>>>i know how to take the snapshot from a running xawtv, but that isn't
>>>>what i want.
>>>
>>>perhaps, an example of what you do wish to take picture would be more
>>>helpful? There is a screenshot app under the Kmenu ( dunno about
>>>gnome) that is called ksnapshot that works well for showing almost
>>>anything on the desktop... Kmenu ->utilities-> ksnapshot
>>>hope this helps, if not more info from you is required :)
>>>
>>
>>
>> sorry, this is my first time i'm writing to a mailing list.
>>
>> i have a webcam and i want to be able to take a snapshot from the cam
>> (/dev/video0) and save it to a file. so i need either a program which
>> does  both or just get's me the snapshot from the cam.
>> xawtv-remote allows to snapshot from a running xawtv process, but i
>> want it  without any process before. the program should open the
>> device, take the  snapshot and cloe the device. thats it.
>> hope this informations was useful for you.
>
> My apologies for my previous brain dead suggestion...  Streamer used to
>  come with xawtv, just noted it now comes with v4l-tools on SuSE 9.0
> pro.
>
> With streamer you can pull multiple images, streams or a single image
> from a v4l device, check it out.  Something like:
>
> streamer -t 1 -o foo.jpeg
>
thanks! the streams-thing works nearly perfect :)