Re: Regarding webcams (pyro) and digital cameras.
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From: Felix T. <ta...@ee...> - 2001-01-15 15:42:53
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Dan, Thanks for the info. Does your program work with just the orange micro ibot? Is the source available? Yeah, the nikon camera is a bit pricey. I think I might avoid getting that to work for now. I'm more interested in getting a compressed/uncompressed video stream from a webcam like camera. Felix On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Dan Dennedy wrote: > I have a little program that displays the web/desktop cameras' video in > a window--whoopee! I personally have the Orange Micro iBot. I'm > interested in making these cameras work with Kino, and adding a > play-n-grab feature to Kino to do stop-motion animation. Also, I am > thinking it would not be difficult to make the camera output a JPEG > image for use on a website. > > I just looked up the Nikon D1. In "Nikon Capture" mode it can out TIFF > images. I'd have to view the raw isochronous stream in order to > determine how it is packetizing the data. It's probably just a matter of > taking consecutive packets of a single frame and wrapping it inside of a > TIFF file. Right now, there is no app that can take advantage of it. I > just saw it at a price of about US$5000; I can not afford that right > now! > > +-DRD-+ > > Felix Tang wrote: > > > > All, > > > > I'd like to clarify something... are video cameras like the pyro which > > send uncompressed data supported by any applications? I understand that > > Sony also makes quite a few of these video cameras as well. Secondly, how > > about digital cameras like the Nikon D1? It takes still pictures but can > > also capture video... although in what format I'm not sure. > > > > Felix > > > > _______________________________________________ > > mailing list Lin...@li... > > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux1394-user > |