Re: image-acquisition 0.1.1 released

[Andreas Weber]

Hi Philip,

On 21.01.2014 22:39, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
> Andreas Weber-3 wrote
>> Am 21.01.2014 16:13, schrieb Carnë Draug:
>>> first release of the image-acquisition package by Andreas Weber is
>>> out. See its wiki page [1] for multiple examples. Enjoy Octave
>>> responsibly.
>>> [1] http://wiki.octave.org/Image_acquisition_package
>>
>> Hi octave users,
>> I would really appreciate if users with a webcam or other v4l2 capture
>> device try the package, play around and give me some feedback.
>>
>> I've tested the package with 2 webcams and v4l2loopback but I would like
>> to see how it behaves with other devices.
> 
> Hopefully next week I can try on Mageia 2 (seems some sorting out
> dependencies is required there).

I look forward to your experience.

> Any chance this package will be supported on other platforms than Linux?

Guess v4l2 is GNU/Linux only and if we want to capture images on Windows
we have to use DirectShow or something like that? I do not have access
to any Windows OS, therefore don't have interrest in implementing the
capture functions for it.

-- Andy