[NCLUG] V4L Snapshot help

Brian Wood bwood at beww.org
Thu Oct 9 19:38:59 MDT 2008


Grant Johnson wrote:
> I have a working V4L device.   It displays nicely on xawtv and kdetv.

I haven't tried this with a still camera, but couldn't you just cat the
device file into a file?

cat /dev/video0 > snapshotfile

It works with video sources.

beww



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