Re: How to take single frames?

Daniel Haude wrote:
> I don't know if my last email regarding this subject came through or not,
> so let me ask this again. I'm developing an application that requires
> single pictures taken from an IEEE1394 camera. I tried to do this along
> the lines of grab_color_image from the libdc1394 library, but the example
> program gets stuck at the dc1394_single_capture() call.
>
> The camera works fine with coriander, but only in video1394 capture mode,
> not raw1494. Could this be a related problem?
>
> I've been thinking of temporarily using the video4linux interface from
> coriander as a workaround, but this relies on the vloopback module which I
> can't get to build on linux-2.4.17 (it hasn't been supported for a long
> time anyway).
>
> Does this sound familiar to anyone? Is there another sample application
> that I could use for capturing single frames, or a more up-to-date
> substutute for vloopback (I've been looking pretty hard but weren't able
> to find anything).

I think the reason you are not getting a response is that your problem
seems so general that no-one can spot anything obviously wrong. Can
you give more detailed info on your camera, the set-up sequence and so
on? Have you tried it with Cammonitor?

Regards,
Johann

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