Timelapse on Linux

[duck]

So I've got a PS3 Eye, which has in-built kernel support. Problem is, I've got no idea how to do timelapse - mPlayer complains about improper frame size & doesn't record at low frame rates, Camstream is just pitch black, and Cheese only goes up to 100 shots. Any ideas?

I'm on Ubuntu 10.4beta1 currently, but Fedora 11 had the same problem (except camstream kept fucking up the input)

[CPPNOOB]

Make a small bash script that captures a picture every X seconds/minutes until terminated.

[Baldr]

jup

#!/usr/bin/sh
clear
echo '+--------------------------+'
echo '| I spy one garry v0.1     |'
echo '+--------------------------+'
while :
do
	dt=`date +%d_%m_%y__%k_%M_%S`
	time=`date +%T`
	echo [$time] 'Cam 1 download...'
	wget -q http://cam.facepunchstudios.com/current/camera_1.jpg
	echo [$time] 'Cam 1 download done'
	echo [$time] 'Cam 2 download...'
	wget -q http://cam.facepunchstudios.com/current/camera_2.jpg
	echo [$time] 'Cam 2 download done'
	echo [$time] 'Cam 1 rename...'
	mv camera_1.jpg cam1/camera_1_$dt.jpg
	echo [$time] 'Cam 1 rename done'
	echo [$time] 'Cam 2 rename...'
	mv camera_2.jpg cam2/camera_2_$dt.jpg
	echo [$time] 'Cam 2 done'
	echo [$time] 'Idle'
	sleep 20s
done

And after that use some stop motion software to glue it together.

[DrMelon]

Uh, that's useless unless he wants to look at Garry's camera. He wants to use his own camera, so he'll need a command-line utility that can snap from his camera. Instead of using wget to download the FP cams.

[Baldr]

[QUOTE=robowurmz;21229920]Uh, that's useless unless he wants to look at Garry's camera. He wants to use his own camera, so he'll need a command-line utility that can snap from his camera. Instead of using wget to download the FP cams.[/QUOTE]

It though it was pretty clear that he needed to edit some lines, ok: you need to edit some lines.