terminal camera

A webcam client for your terminal, because we surely needed one.

TODO:

• as of now, it only expects MJPG camera format and has to decompress it to then process it, the programs should check capabilities and then act accordingly. This can cause very low fps or the program simply not working with certain (other than mine) hardware
  • currnly to fix it, you can poke the driver with v4l2-ctl utility, specifically:

    # lists formats for you to choose one
    v4l2-ctl --list-formats-ext
    
    # set one of the listed formats, currently only MJPEG will work
    v4l2-ctl -v width=1280,height=720,pixelformat=MJPEG \
    --stream-mmap=3 \
    --stream-count=1000 \
    --stream-to=/dev/null
    

• resizing and recoloring can be done while resizing the jpeg, by looking at the turbo-jpeg api
• image processing needs more polish, the quality was better on the cv2 version