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  1. tim says:
    Firefox 18.0 Firefox 18.0 Windows XP Windows XP
    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0

    thanks for the summary. most usefull. I have tried camshot and fswebshot and fswebshot works nicely enough. camshot seems to need interactive operation so is not so good for scripts. fswebshot works with a dynamode m-1100m webcam and a logitec c210 although not at the same resolution. the dynamode just works at 320×240 and the logitec just at 640×480. It takes some testing to find resolutions at which the camera doesn’t “time-out” with the software. the next challange will be implementing some sort of web-based streaming of the webcam, with the option of audio.

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  2. costin says:
    Firefox 14.0 Firefox 14.0 GNU/Linux x64 GNU/Linux x64
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0

    MPlayer produced a green screen 4 U because U need to capture several frames (not just one) to get a decent one. This because MPlayer always starts the camera and does not wait to image to stabilize befor taking the shot.
    For me, I have to grab about 20 frames to get a decenet last one (-frames 20). In my scripts I use the last one. This is time consuming.

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  3. Alberto says:
    Google Chrome 26.0.1410.43 Google Chrome 26.0.1410.43 GNU/Linux x64 GNU/Linux x64
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.31 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/26.0.1410.43 Safari/537.31

    I tried mplayer, vlc, ffmpeg, and camshot on my SL6 WS using a logitech C615 webcam.
    All used to be work fine, but since last kernel update (I presume) all are giving black screen. Now I have to grab at least 2 frames (using the last one) to get a decent picture.

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    • admin says:
      Firefox 3.6.3 Firefox 3.6.3 Windows 7 Windows 7
      Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3

      Hi Alberto,

      I think it is due to problem with driver with newer kernel version. Maybe you need to patch the kernel compiling it from source. Thanks for feedback.

      Best
      Georgi

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  4. Ubuntu User says:
    Firefox 31.0 Firefox 31.0 Ubuntu x64 Ubuntu x64
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0

    Hi, Thanks for this article. I use the vlc method. But it opens the vlc player and shows wht im capturing evertime i run the command, Is there any way that I can run this in the background? I mean without getting the vlc to display what is captured? but the image should be saved as usual.

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    • admin says:
      Firefox 31.0 Firefox 31.0 Windows 7 x64 Edition Windows 7 x64 Edition
      Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0

      maybe you can try to add:
      vlc -I http –dummy-quiet

      This should pop up an HTTP inteface to VLC

      Hope this helps,

      Georgi

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  5. gastax says:
    Firefox 28.0 Firefox 28.0 GNU/Linux GNU/Linux
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0

    Investigation on camshot showed to me, that all pictures are stored in /tmp by default.
    $ camshot –help

    Unfortunately, there is no option to take a picture delayed by some seconds, so not useful to take a picture of own screen showing specific window inclusive the environment/room, where the screen is placed.

    gastax

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  6. gastax says:
    Firefox 28.0 Firefox 28.0 GNU/Linux GNU/Linux
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0

    camshot –help
    camshot -h

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