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• dcs1000w-1.02 released

  Summary: Major update 1. The nightly movie is now created as an NTSC-DVD ready MPEG2 file. This allows the movie(s) to be easily moved to DVD for archival, with no transcoding necessary. As a result, there have been some minor changes to messages logged, which also clarified what was actually going on. 2. In addition to IP cameras that allow retrieval of IMAGE.JPG as the current image, the script has added support for and V4L device that works with the webcam utility (part of the xawtv package). To specify a V4L device, replace the IP address of the camera with a fully qualified path (i.e., a file name starting with a slash) to the webcam configuration file. A sample webcam configuration file, is included with the distribution as "dcs1000w.webcamrc". 3. The IP address or webcam configuration file is now passed to the user dcs1000w-error handler (if it exists), so device specific error handling can occur. The sample error handler has been updated to reflect this. 4. While using the ImageMagick convert utility to timestamp the image, the image is enhanced for improved low-light visibility. This makes the image grainy in low-light situations, but at least you can see what is going on. Also, the date/timestamp is added to the image comment. This can then be extracted for processing using the ImageMagick identify utility. For example: $ identify -verbose current.jpg | grep Comment Comment: Tue Aug 16 15:31:37 EDT 2005 5. The brief loss of visibility due to the processing if the image capture directories at midnight has been removed. This is accomplished with a new directory structure in the image capture directory that allows the directories to be renamed instead of moving the files. In addition, the long running deletion of the previous days images is now performed asynchronously, overlapped with the movie creation. As a result visibility and capture is now performed 24x7x365 without interruption. For those upgrading from a prior release, create a "today" directory in the image capture directory, and move all existing camera* files into it. Do not move the "current.jpg" and "last.jpg" symbolic links. They will be automatically updated when the script is restarted. 6. There has been a general code cleanup, to improve the readability and maintainability of the code.

  posted by macemoneta 1562 days ago

• File released: /dcs1000w/1.02/dcs1000w-1.02.sha1sum

  posted 1562 days ago

• File released: /dcs1000w/1.02/dcs1000w-1.02.md5sum

  posted 1562 days ago

• File released: /dcs1000w/1.02/dcs1000w-1.02.tar.gz

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• dcs1000w 1.02 file released: dcs1000w-1.02.tar.gz

  # 1.02 - Create the movie as NTSC-DVD ready MPEG2. # Remove the number of frames in the created movie message. # Accept a fully qualified path to a file (starting with a slash) # as the cameraIP, and use the xawtv webcam utility with that file as # the configuration for capture of a single image from a V4L device. # Pass the name/IP of the camera to dcs1000w-error, so recovery can be # specific to the device. # Perform image enhancement, to improve low light visibility. # Delete yesterday's photos asynchronously during movie creation. # Use a new directory structure to speed midnight processing: # photo-directory # today # yesterday # temp (only exists during movie creation) # General code cleanup

  posted 1563 days ago

• dcs1000w 1.02 file released: dcs1000w-1.02.sha1sum

  # 1.02 - Create the movie as NTSC-DVD ready MPEG2. # Remove the number of frames in the created movie message. # Accept a fully qualified path to a file (starting with a slash) # as the cameraIP, and use the xawtv webcam utility with that file as # the configuration for capture of a single image from a V4L device. # Pass the name/IP of the camera to dcs1000w-error, so recovery can be # specific to the device. # Perform image enhancement, to improve low light visibility. # Delete yesterday's photos asynchronously during movie creation. # Use a new directory structure to speed midnight processing: # photo-directory # today # yesterday # temp (only exists during movie creation) # General code cleanup

  posted 1563 days ago

• dcs1000w 1.02 file released: dcs1000w-1.02.md5sum

  # 1.02 - Create the movie as NTSC-DVD ready MPEG2. # Remove the number of frames in the created movie message. # Accept a fully qualified path to a file (starting with a slash) # as the cameraIP, and use the xawtv webcam utility with that file as # the configuration for capture of a single image from a V4L device. # Pass the name/IP of the camera to dcs1000w-error, so recovery can be # specific to the device. # Perform image enhancement, to improve low light visibility. # Delete yesterday's photos asynchronously during movie creation. # Use a new directory structure to speed midnight processing: # photo-directory # today # yesterday # temp (only exists during movie creation) # General code cleanup

  posted 1563 days ago

• dcs1000w-1.01

  Date: 2004-08-08 Summary: Minor fixes 1. The messages generated have been made more clear. 2. An additional check was added before creating a symlink for the current image. 3. Since corrupt images transferred from the camera are a fact of life, the message indicating that this has occurred has been made a debug message. 4. Multiple files are now checked for a possible date change, to protect against a deletion or processing delay.

  posted by macemoneta 1935 days ago

• File released: /dcs1000w/1.01/dcs1000w.md5sum

  posted 1935 days ago

• File released: /dcs1000w/1.01/dcs1000w-1.01.tar.gz

  posted 1935 days ago