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| cowasaki:
--- Quote from: cowasaki on January 27, 2021, 07:30:43 am --- --- Quote from: Berni on January 27, 2021, 06:20:25 am ---I actually use this odd one: https://www.e-consystems.com/e-CAMView-Windows-camera-streaming-app.asp#Features (Web page is anoying on not just giving you a download tho) It's actually a demo app for the cameras they make, but in reality its basically the same thing as AMCAP and works with anything detected as a camera on windows. Appears to do a minimal amount of buffering and works fast even when displaying absurd resolution video from fancy USB3 cameras. --- End quote --- This looks like it might be ideal. I will take a look when I get into my workshop later. Thanks --- End quote --- I cant download it as it requires registration but doesn't accept details. EDIT: It wouldn't accept any legit email addresses but did accept bob.dylan@ici.com Now downloading |
| cowasaki:
OK so e-cam-view works as well as AMCAP with a good quality output. VLC does work but in trying to be clever with dozens of options falls over on not offering a fully default option. As such it is displaying an out of focus 4:3 image rather than the correct image. As e-cam-view just works I will use that rather than spend however long it takes going through all the options with codecs etc just to find the correct one that AMCAP and e-cam-view detected and worked with Thanks everyone. That was really helpful |
| cdev:
On Linux I've yet to find an optimal scientific image capture package. For people using Linux, maybe imagej (which I remember as very old) or in the case of astronomy images, wxastrocam? I'd really love to have a still and video capture program that was well suited to doing on screen measurements. |
| cowasaki:
--- Quote from: cdev on January 27, 2021, 07:10:29 pm ---On Linux I've yet to find an optimal scientific image capture package. For people using Linux, maybe imagej (which I remember as very old) or in the case of astronomy images, wxastrocam? I'd really love to have a still and video capture program that was well suited to doing on screen measurements. --- End quote --- I know VLC is available on linux so maybe that's the way to go. I couldn't be bothered messing around with a dozen settings just to get the default image as comes out of the camera so I went with the other one which is fine. |
| cdev:
VLC works fine for video capture alone. So does obs. |
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