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How to use an external cam? - Version: 1.1, 5/12/2007 02:16PM PST
derek39
I have the same issue, where I want to make it use an external (USB) camera. There's a -i [camera-index] option, but 0 and 1 both use the built-in cam, above that gives an error, and I see no provision for viewing a list of the available values to give to -i.
Used to be very useful 
- Version: 1.1, 2/7/2007 09:19PM PST
John Chew
I used to use isightcapture all the time on my ibook G4 with FireWire iSight. It no longer works with my MacBook; it seems to be confused between the built-in USB iSight and the external FireWire one. There's no way to tell it which one you want, and since I need it for an event webcam, the built-in (unaimable) camera is not a useful choice. I wrote to the developer about a year ago, but never heard back. It's a shame, because this used to be a nifty utility.
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- Used to be very useful
# webcam2file.command
# Webcam to file script; for creating a webcam website on a mac.
# September 21, 2007
# Make sure this script is saved with unix line returns and set it executable
# ex: chmod 750 webcam2file.command
# For quick launch in the GUI; In the finder Get Info (command i) and set Open With to Terminal.app
# Then drag the script on to the *bottom* dock.
# Requires: isightcapture and ImageMagick
# ImageMagick is used for date stamping the web image.
# For ImageMagick on the mac; install macports and run the following command to install:
# sudo /opt/local/bin/port install rb-rmagick
# MacPorts: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/InstallingMacPorts
# isightcapture: http://www.intergalactic.de/hacks.html
echo "Starting Web Cam"
echo ""
while (1 == 1)
# For more date format options see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_%28Unix%29#Formatting
set date=`date "+%l:%M:%S %p"`
echo "taking photo ${date}"
# Have isight capture the image and save it to the Macintosh website folder.
# Assumes isightcapture is placed in /local/bin; change if not.
/local/bin/isightcapture -w 320 -h 240 ~/Sites/images/cam-raw.jpg
# Comment this line if you don't install ImageMagick or don't want to put a timestamp on the image.
# For more ImageMagick text stamp options see: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/annotating/
/opt/local/bin/convert ~/Sites/images/cam-raw.jpg -gravity South -background skyblue -splice 0x18 -draw "text 0,0 '${date}'" ~/Sites/images/cam.jpg
#sleep setting regulates time between photos, currently 1 second + write and date = 5 about seconds
sleep 1
end
exit