Tag: USB webcam

• October 16, 2014

  ffmpeg time lapse notes

  ffmpeg is a movie-encoding command line tool that is also useful for capturing and assembling time lapse movies, particularly using webcams. Below are some example commands to get it to do stuff. It is run from a terminal command line on Linux, OSX, and Windows. You will probably want to add the location of the…
• October 3, 2012

  USB extension cables

  Here’s a standard USB webcam sitting on top of 30 meters of USB extension cables (three 10 meter cables). Three cables daisy chained together with the webcam attached to the end seems to be the functional limit. Adding a 4th 10-meter cable results in the camera not being recognized. These 10 meter extension cables, also…