[juneau-lug] Re: Crontab question

jason.benshoof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hey Kevin,
> 
> Sounds like a fun project.  I think Kino along with this plug-in package might
> do the trick. Check out the Multiple Image Import info here:
> http://users.pandora.be/acp/kino/kinoplus.html#multiple
> It sounds like it might work for you.
> 
> Jason

Hey Jason, thanks for the link.  Been playing a bit with Main Actor. 
Might look at KINO but I'm not sure if it can open .mpg files.  It can 
export them, but barfs when I try to open them.  Haven't delved too 
deeply into it yet though.

How's China treating you?  Any first hand accounts on the state of Linux 
there?

I googled around a bit and found this site:
   http://www.stillhq.com/jpeg2mpeg/

Turns out that all I needed to do was install mpeg2vidcodec and the 
utilities in image-magick (already installed) took care of it.  Found an 
rpm on pbone.net so installed it and ran

   convert *.jpg glacier.mpg

and presto.  Takes a couple minutes to process all the images.  Guess 
it's time to get an SMP Athlon 64 box! <g>  (Santa, you listening?)

For a days worth of images I got about 5 seconds worth of video!  Kind 
of sucky images - even at the bright of day they're still pretty dark. 
I expect in the summer it will be better, when the sun's higher in the sky.

Funny thing today - I don't know why but the Forest Circus put up one 
image from June 29th.  They post a new date stamped image every five 
minutes.  The difference in lighting was really apparent.  I may go out 
to the visitor's center and talk to them - be nice if they could adjust 
the quality of the image a bit.  I haven't played with webcams before, 
so I don't know what the limitations are.  Probably varies greatly with 
the equipment.

Cron job is running just fine.  Been grabbing images automatically for a 
couple days now.  It was a good excuse to actually learn a bit of 
scripting.  Easy to edit someone's premade script, but there's nothing 
like writing one from scratch to enhance understanding.

To all the J-LUGgers out there, Merry Christmas and an Open Source New Year!

...Kevin
-- 
Kevin Miller
http://www.alaska.net/~atftb
Juneau, Alaska
Registered Linux User No: 307357

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