ffmpeg not used by xscreensaver-getimage-video

[James]

xscreensaver-getimage-video does not support ffmpeg as a video capturing program.

A command to grab a single frame of video from the webcam would be:

ffmpeg -i /dev/video0 -ss 00:00:01 -vframes 1 -f png <filename>

ffmpeg is a relatively common program to have, and so including it as an option for xscreensaver-getimage-video would be useful.

[Christian Decker (decker-christian)]

Hello,

is it really a bug or just a feature you like to have?

Greets

[James (jamestheawesomedude)]

@decker-christian It's more of a feature request than a bug.. should I tag it as such?

ffmpeg with the command I've given usually has much better results than any of the programs xscreensaver-getimage-video uses. Most of the time, with the default utilities, the picture is quite messed up, at least on the webcams I've tried. Whereas in the same situation, ffmpeg -vframes 1 gives a quite good picture.

[Christian Decker (decker-christian)]

Yeah, please.

[Mamoru TASAKA (mtasaka)]

James, if you can please report this (feature request) to the upstream,
which may bring more possibility that your request would be included into
xscreensaver code.