This wednesday our local louvain-la-neuve LUG (louvain-li-nux) will participate to a student fair showcasing all activity groups present in the university. We had the idea of creating a photo booth stand where people can stop by take a picture by pressing a button and then send that picture on a dynamic website or on a big projector live. All this using free software of course. It’s a good way to engage conversation with people!
I searched the internet for something existing but unfortunately couldn’t find anything except this little snippet of code for the Nokia 880 device. I took the code, embraced and extended it resulting in:
Photobooth ScreenshotBasically it uses gstreamer to grab frames from the webcam then it feeds a double pipeline, one displaying the image on screen on the gtk widget, and the other allowing to take a buffer when the user clicks the button and encode it to whatever image format is needed.
There is of course the little countdown from 3 to ‘Smile’ when clicking the button, and i plan to add the white screen thingy when the shot is made.. I think apple can sue me right away
The code will be released next week after the application has been proved in the field to be stable enough 🙂
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22 responses to “Let’s take pictures!”
If only it could work with my cam…
If your cam works with gstreamer, it should work with it 😉 It’s the basic principle of gstreamer
Wohooooo!
Massive.
I don’t think the ‘record’ icon is appropriate or necessary. I suggest dropping the icon for the button.
Some app name suggestions:
PhotoBox
Blink
RedEye
Cheese
Yay! Cheessy! Too bad my Sony Vaio FE MotionEye doesn’t work with Linux. I just hate it when Linux lacks lots of driver ;(
I was going to write a Photobooth clone!
For the thumbnails of the images I planned to use EogThumbView from eog-ng branch.
Do you have disortion effects in you program? They can be achieved using OpenGL and shaders.
Well effects are provided by effectv gstreamer plugins. I suppose you could rite your own gstreamer plugin to do some more effects..
For the thumbnails i just use an IconView with a large number of columns, it seems to work quite well..
I like ‘Cheese’ very much 🙂
I was thinking to do a simular thing for the dipro fairs with ubuntu-be.org
Because I would use my N800 I had also the idea to let people sign they pictures 😀
Just an idea!
I’m willing to help you out if you want, it would be sooo cool!
Greetz,
François
Cool app!
BTW, s/Nokia 880/Nokia N800/
Cool, nice Photobooth clone.
It would be really cool a flash effect when taking a photo like Apple’s Photobooth does. I believe this can be done if a composite manager is present.
This looks pretty good, I think the record button needs to be changed a little tho. Because it uses gstreamer, it shouldnt be too hard to be able to record video as well right? Although sound would probably be another issue….
here is another one gstreamer based but done in python
http://adam.uwcs.co.uk/kaapow/
It would be great to have one of these included by default with Gnome.
It is really a sad thing, that gstreamer doesn’t support v4l. I use my photo camera as webcam, connected via my TV-Card to the PC.
[quote comment=”11102″]gstreamer doesn’t support v4l[/quote]
It’s in SoC…
Seriously, stop copying Apple. Where the hell is the innovation in GNOME? So many things are outright ripoffs of Os X.
Its sad. Nautilus, the open save dialog, the control center, this.
Its just pathetic..
[quote comment=”11117″]Seriously, stop copying Apple. Where the hell is the innovation in GNOME? So many things are outright ripoffs of Os X.
Its sad. Nautilus, the open save dialog, the control center, this.
Its just pathetic..[/quote]
What about when apple stop copying us?
Apple are just getting around to implementing ‘spaces’, if you’ve ever used linux you’ll see that in any window manager overlaying X11. Apple introduced time machine, the same effect has been achieved by many linux users by archiving their documents in CVS.
What exactly are apple doing if not innovating? Oh, that’s right, putting a pretty GUI on top of it. And you say we’re idea thieving?…………….
where is the code? i would like to try (and extend if neccesary) the app.
Hi kikidonk,
I wrote a tutorial about doing some Photobooth effects using GLSL shaders, maybe it’ll suit your needs.Check it out: http://dem.ocracy.org/libero/photobooth/
Libe
> where is the code? i would like to try
me too.
Is this now A GSoC project?
(see here http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2007/Ideas#head-1be683396714290dae43af13c55a15d60cafcb16)
> Is this now A GSoC project?
http://code.google.com/soc/gnome/appinfo.html?csaid=9241C03D23E01D36
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