Thread: ρcam 1.0.7 now in extras -- raw/jpg camera application for N9 and N900 with manual controls and image stabilization (N9 version still on 1.0.4)
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ladoga is offline ladoga
2012-12-12 , 22:41
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Originally Posted by qwazix View Post
@Ladoga, I remember that there was a way to capture camera frames with gstreamer on the N900, specifically screen-sized ones. Writing a shell script to run the command should be trivial, and the command should work on the N9 too. This fulfills all your requirements and is easy to implement. I suggest you search for the relevant command and if you are not familliar with shell scripting, start a new thread asking for help. The result will be useful to many people.
I've tried gst-launch (that's the only CLI method I found after quite extensive searching). I had N9 to take stills using the main camera as video source and wrote those over ssh to my laptop.The results were quite poor and blurry.

What I meant was a way of taking good quality photos (not video stills) to make time-lapse videos. (Or should it be called time-lapse photography?). Even if I can find a way, I expect that adjusting composition, focus, exposure and iso level are better done in a "real" program rather than shell scripts. I enjoy writing shell scripts though.

Anyway it's not terribly important and I've found a so-so replament as CameraPro app has ability to take timed photos. There are few down sides to it. The display will stay on when the app is running, which could be be days so I'm bit afraid of screen damage and it hogs a lot of cpu (90% usage, while capturing 1280x720 images at 2sec intervals) so the phone has to be plugged into a charger. Otherwise it does the job quite well.
Last edited by ladoga; 2012-12-12 at 23:09.