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jemimah · Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 4309 Location: Tampa, FL

This is a small and nice program for capturing images and video from a webcam. The UI is scalable and well designed - perfect for netbooks.

It has brightness and contrast controls, supports multiple images formats, time lapse capture, and also raw AVI video. Originally it had Ogg Theora encoding support, but the encoder crashed on anything larger than postage stamp size video, so I removed it.

Gxine won't play raw avi, so I've included a really basic ffmpeg front end so you can convert your video into something that will play. To make this work, you need to select UYVY in the ColorFormat Preferences - otherwise Ffmpeg won't know what to do the the raw video either.

Ffmpeg experts, please post any tips you know to convert the video into a usable format. I haven't yet figured out how to specify the frame-rate or how to get the sound to play.

The unicap pet has Ucview with the required unicap libraries. This program depends on gconf. I have included the gconf-dbus pet, packaged by Disciple, here. Ucview should work if you install all attached pets. I've only tested on 4.3.1, so I'm not sure how well it'll work on other versions.

pri · Joined: 09 Oct 2009 Posts: 344 Location: Bandung Indonesia

sory.. i passed here and see your post....

i am not expert on ffmpeg, but i have a ffmpeg conventer MMC (Mobile Media Converter) it has a small script to change multimedia.

http://www.miksoft.net/mobileMediaConverter.htm

jemimah · Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 4309 Location: Tampa, FL

That's a nicer ffmpeg frontend than mine for sure. They sure don't make it easy to get the source though. Sadly, it fails to recognize the format in question.

pri · Joined: 09 Oct 2009 Posts: 344 Location: Bandung Indonesia

working like charming........

Mr. Green

do you see the expalined in the box ? it need libc6 on glibc-2.7

Cool

owhh its a cool program

jemimah · Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 4309 Location: Tampa, FL

If I can figure out how to get and compile the source code, I will make a pet of it.

pri · Joined: 09 Oct 2009 Posts: 344 Location: Bandung Indonesia

yes... i will be waiting.....

i have pet from debian, but there was a strange thing.... it will be hang if converted media if runnig from menu, but work fine if command directly from command line or folder.

fuhh...... Embarassed

compile not my skill.... i just have fun to play puzzle with puppy

pri · Joined: 09 Oct 2009 Posts: 344 Location: Bandung Indonesia

amigo · Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 2647

The sources for mmediac are in a bazaar repo, so you'll need bazaar to dowmload them. Still, this appears to be a ruby script thingy, so you could manually download the files from here, maybe:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~netcyrax/mmediac/v.1.5.0/files

jemimah · Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 4309 Location: Tampa, FL

I must admit, I have no idea how to compile ruby. They managed to turn it into a binary somehow, but I don't see a build script in the repo.

I think I can make something at least as nice in gtkdialog. I'm really surprised it hasn't been done already. If nothing suitable can be found, perhaps I'll add it to my ever growing todo list.

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4878 Location: Blue Springs, MO

You could use woo-ff (gtkdialog ffmpeg converter) as a template for the conversions and these:
Here is a cheap way to do webcam shots

jemimah · Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 4309 Location: Tampa, FL

Woo-ff was exactly what I was looking for - Thank you!

For these other ffmpeg tricks, I don't suppose there's any way to get a live preview? It's nice to be able to see what you're recording...

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4878 Location: Blue Springs, MO

I guess you could open defaultmediaplayer to play the file as it is being recorded

Edit:
the script will stop on ffmpeg unless you use the "&"
ffmpeg .... &
defaultmediaplayer $DIR/$FILE

I was making some changes to woo-ff to fix up some hacks, but haven't tested the changes yet... here it is though if you want it for reference

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4878 Location: Blue Springs, MO

pri · Joined: 09 Oct 2009 Posts: 344 Location: Bandung Indonesia

technosaurus :

http://www.4shared.com/file/219581609/671b4da/MMC.html

JustGreg · Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 785 Location: Connecticut USA

Thanks Jemimah, the Ucview works well on my Acer Aspire One net boot with an Acer Crystal Eye Web Cam. It does work well. Ucview will replace lucview. Your interface is much easier to use and understand. Thank for your efforts!

Yes, technosaurus, oss is the alsa audio stream. I did something similar with the EeePC for audio with ffmpeg. One problem that casue much fustration for me, was the need to turn on the microphone boast in alsamixer. The other headache is those system with an internal microphone have two microphones. Sometimes they are call front and back or internal and external. Getting the correct microphone is a problem.

I did try to record both audio and video and was successful on my Aspire one Here is the code that I used: