Comments on: Simple Webcam Capture

By: dennisjones

dennisjones — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:10:25 +0000

I have managed to get everything working in simple webcam from the command line and it stores an image with the correct filenam in the correct folder on my system. The bad news is that the image is just totally blacked out, what’s more the image size is 287 x 231 pixels. My command line is
c:\Program Files\Simple Webcam Capture\simplecapture.exe /filename c:\capture\test.jpg /suffix dd-mm-yyyy hh.nn.ss /jpgquality 80 /imgperfect 2000 /imgcaption hh.nn.ss”). Any suggestions?
Thanks

By: jjswc

jjswc — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:15:41 +0000

I want to use the command line mode, but always report me one error :”Error processing comman line options”
before get the photo. ( I have to press the accept buttom to continue)

The command capture like this : simplecapture /filename e:\imagesConvert\images\prueba.bmp /suffix hh:nn:ss /jpquality /imgperfect /imgcaption hh:nn:ss

simplecapture /filename e:\imagesConvert\images\prueba.bmp /suffix hh:nn:ss /jpquality 0 /imgperfect 500 /imgcaption hh:nn:ss

My registry register is : ( Version 5.1 )
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\SimpleCapture\Options]
Predeterminado (Valor no establecido)
AutoStartHotKey 0
AutoStartTimer 0
Execute
FileEnabled 1
FileFrequency 1
FileJPEGQuality 0
FileName E:\ImagesConvert\images\prueba.bmp
FileSuffix hh-nn-ss
HotKey H
HotKeyModifier Shift + Ctrl
ImageCaption ttt
ImageCaptureDevice Microsoft WDM Image Capture (Win32)
Perfect 500

Can you tell me what is the error ?

By: peteshew

peteshew — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:27:57 +0000

No, YawCam doesn’t do the job, it is the command line feature I need. Oh, well, I’ll start looking at the API’s

thanks

By: Matt Collinge

Matt Collinge — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:10:03 +0000

I’m afraid not. Give Yawcam a try; it’ll probably suit your needs a bit better.

By: peteshew

peteshew — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:55:01 +0000

I like the command line feature, but SimpleCapture doesn’t seem to capture images larger then about 320 x 240. If I use VIDCAP32 and set the resolution of my camera to 640×480 SimpleCapture command line subsequently captures only the top left quarter (like vincentkhoosh’s problem, above).

Is there a way of getting larger images?

Pete

By: Matt Collinge

Matt Collinge — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 20:55:45 +0000

The problem in the command line above is that the suffix, which includes the time, has characters that are invalid for a filename in Windows. Once he’d removed the colon separators (painfull! ;-)) from the time it worked fine.

By: tailerteilor

tailerteilor — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 03:48:58 +0000

Hello, what is the problem?
Gui interface:
http://img88.imageshack.us/my.php?image=error1guito9.jpg
Command line:
http://img69.imageshack.us/my.php?image=error2commandlinesy2.jpg

My coomand line is:*** simplecapture.exe /filename c:\scap\arc\test.jpg /suffix dd-mm-yyyy hh:nn:ss /jpgquality 80 /imgperfect 500 /imgcaption hh:nn:ss” ***

my e-mail is: tailerteilor@gmail.com
Thanks

By: Matt Collinge

Matt Collinge — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:58:01 +0000

lol

By: nostraxxx

nostraxxx — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:28:27 +0000

Why even bother with .net ?
.net is good only to write very fast a code that runs slow :)

By: nostraxxx

nostraxxx — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:27:11 +0000

The application can not run in command line mode if some keys in the registry are not set. The keys must look something like this:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\SimpleCapture]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\SimpleCapture\Options]
“ImageCaptureDevice”=”Microsoft WDM Image Capture (Win32)”
“Perfect”=”500″
“ImageCaption”=”ttt”
“FileEnabled”=”1″
“FileName”=”d:\tmp\sc\capture.jpg”
“FileSuffix”=”dd-mm-yy hh-nn-ss”
“FileFrequency”=”1″
“FileJPEGQuality”=”80″
“Execute”=”"
“AutoStartTimer”=”0″
“HotKey”=”H”
“HotKeyModifier”=”Shift + Ctrl”
“AutoStartHotKey”=”0″

The keys are set automaticaly when you run the application in window mode for the first time.
Also it will be usefull to have the command line application resident and not to exit after capturing one image.

Thanks!