Make screenshort from web camera.
authorOleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com>
Sat, 29 Jun 2013 15:50:43 +0300
changeset 1499 b19fe371e90e
parent 1498 094d7e74252a
child 1502 73e40e83592a
Make screenshort from web camera.
video.rst
--- a/video.rst	Sat Jun 29 15:46:36 2013 +0300
+++ b/video.rst	Sat Jun 29 15:50:43 2013 +0300
@@ -38,14 +38,19 @@
 Web camera.
 ===========
 
-To view picture from web camera on display screen::
+View picture from web camera on display screen::
 
   $ mplayer tv://
   $ mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:fps=15:device=/dev/video0
   $ cheese
   $ camorama
 
-To record web camera to file::
+Make screenshort from web camera::
+
+  $ ffmpeg -f video4linux2 -i /dev/v4l/by-id/CAMERA -vframes 1 test.jpeg
+  $ ffmpeg -f video4linux2 -i /dev/v4l/by-id/CAMERA -vframes 4 test%3d.jpeg
+
+Record web camera to a file::
 
   $ mencoder -fps 15 tv:// -ovc lavc -o my.avi