[General] Photobooth Software Updates

[Sara Neale]

Thanks for all your help on this Venkat. It looks promising :)

Sara

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Venkat Raghavan V.C. <
venkatraghavan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nathan,
>
> I have not been able to work on the software for this as I was in
> Houston for work the past couple of days. I should be back in hsv
> tomorrow, so i probably will get the rest done over the weekend.
>
> Venkat
>
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Nathan W. <greenfday6 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Venkat
> >
> > Hay man, just wanted to ping you and see how things are going?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Nathan
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Venkat Raghavan
> > <venkatraghavan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Guys,
> >>
> >> Here is a list of progress updates on the software side of things.
> >>
> >>  a. Photobooth mode - take 4 pictures save then as a strip.
> >> I have been successful in taking a picture and saving it to a PNG.
> >>
> >> To do:
> >> 1) Create a unique filename based on mmddyyyy-hhmmss
> >> 2) Configuring storage locations based on ini file
> >> 3) Check and see if picture is better when a 2.0 MP or greater webcam is
> >> used
> >> 4) Use Imagemagick to stitch the image files together.
> >> 5) See how to embed 256.makerslocal.org in image file metadata
> >> 6) Add display captions on screen - (say cheese!)
> >> 7) Check possibility of adding a non intrusive 256.makerslocal.org sign
> >> on the bottom, on the OUTSIDE of the picture strip.
> >>
> >>>  b. Video mode - take video 12-15sec
> >> Currently, I am using mediacontrol API provided by VLC. This
> >> unfortunately does not do video. The other option is to use libvlc,
> >> which I will look into, but I am not sure how that will pan out.
> >>
> >>>  c. Mystery Mode
> >> To do: Have to add a button, and a gtk window that pops up and closes
> >> after a certain time elapses. The directory source of the image
> >> displayed will be configurable in the ini file, and will pick random
> >> pictures to display.
> >>
> >>> 2. Linux Based
> >> what else :)
> >>
> >>> 3. Use version control system, preferable the svn server at the shop.
> >> Will commit code when I have access. I also need the address of the svn
> >> server.
> >>
> >>> 4. Highest resolution/fast as possible.
> >> It does not look like we can use the camera on the UPMC. The image seems
> >> to be all distorted, if it displays at all. Anyways, this will be
> >> controlled by what webcam we can obtain for the project.
> >>
> >> Also, hardware design needs to account for this.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Venkat
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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