> hi everyone, > > im interested in using mplayer to output jpeg images from a webcam, i can > already do this by using this command: > > mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0 -fps 5 -nosound -vo jpeg > > mplayer man page specifies the text below for the option "-vo jpeg": > > Output each frame into a JPEG file in the current directory. Each file > takes the frame number padded with leading zeros as name. > > my problem is that i need the jpeg image to have a specific name. i mean > every frame outputs named "cam1" or "0000000" overwriting the previous > files. > > what can i do? > As I'm really bad in programming C I would let mplayer do what it likes, and have a script running which regularly moves each file it finds inside the jpeg-directory to the destination filename. Perhaps MPlayer would have to be re-started regularly, because the manpage seems to tell me that mplayer won't be willing to write an unlimited number of jpegs to just one directory. Greets, Kiste
