desktop_connected_camera

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Presentation
3. Project's structure
4. How was this project developed ?
5. How does this project work ?
6. How to use it ?
7. A few examples
8. Useful links
9. Conclusion

Introduction

Presentation

This project is a fork of the connected camera project's developed-in-Python software core.

Project's structure

How was this project developed ?

How does this project work ?

How to use it ?

A few examples

Useful links

Conclusion

It's a project specifically for linux distributions:

This piece of software has the following features:

1. can take photos,

2. can shoot videos,

3. can add decorations to take the photo or shoot the video,

4. can modify mode among the following: normal, cartoonized without colors, cartoonized with colors,

5. can share videos or photos on different social networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and Instagram).

This application can take photos in this format: '.jpg', '.jpeg', '.jpe', '.jp2', '.png', '.tiff', '.tif', '.bmp', '.dib', '.pbm', '.pgm', '.ppm'.

This application can record videos in this format: '.avi', '.mp4'.

To use this application, follow this steps:

1. go to the desktop_connected_camera from where you clone this repository, by using this command: cd desktop_connected_camera,

2. inside the desktop_connected_camera, run the main.py script using this following command:

python3 main.py -output_video_name desired_video_name -output_video_format desired_video_format -photo_name desired_photo_name -photo_format desired_photo_format

Default values for these parameters are:

1. -output_video_name: Store the video name informed by the user default value: outputVideo,

2. -output_video_format: Store the video name informed by the user default value: '.avi'

3. -photo_name: Store the photo name informed by the user default value: 'monImg',

4. -photo_format: Store the photo format informed by the user default value: '.jpg'.

Warning: This application launchs only on python3.