wacaw

A helpful command-line tool for Mac OS X that allows you to capture both still pictures and video
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  • License:
  • GPL
  • Price:
  • FREE
  • Publisher Name:
  • Harald
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  • Operating Systems:
  • Mac OS X
  • File Size:
  • 19 KB

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wacaw Description

A helpful command-line tool for Mac OS X that allows you to capture both still pictures and video wacaw is a little command-line tool for Mac OS X that allows you to capture both still pictures and video from an attached camera. wacaw is a very simple and small program that follows the UNIXish philosophy of doing only one thing, but thoroughly.That's what makes wacaw an ideal tool for system administrators and Uberusers, it's flexibility allows it to be integrated in shell scripts, Automator actions, AppleScript projects etc.The video recording feature allows the user to create videos of pre-defined length, a useful feature for e.g. a surveillance application that captures a video if motion is detected.wacaw is a collection of scripts and tools for processing images and video from attached FireWire and USB webcams on Mac OS X. Here are some key features of "wacaw": · Captures still images and video (with and without audio) · Can copy to clipboard, supporting both TIFF format as well as a Base64 encoded string (can be pasted directly to textfield, e.g. phpMyAdmin) · Supported formats: BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF · Command-line tool w/o GUI · Can be integrated in shell scripts of all kinds, Automator actions and the like · Very small binary (approx. 28KB) What's New in This Release: · Copy to clipboard · Specify input number of device · Can specify number of images so that camera can stabilize


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