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Looking around I found several solutions to take individual pictures (a few solutions are given here) and even a series of pictures (with up to one fps). I want to store the pictures in much lower time steps (5-10 fps would be great) and as these solutions operate like:

turn on camera --> take picture --> turn off camera --> sleep --> turn on camera -->...

I did not find a way to make pictures this fast. Thus I am looking for a (elegant) solution, which does not turn off the camera.

I know of two work-around:

  1. open maximized mplayer with webcam stream and make screen shots
  2. make snippets of video and convert them back in a series of pictures

but these seem very unreasonable...

Note: I am explicitly looking for a solution that can be operated from the terminal!

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streamer can still do this:

streamer -t99999999999999 -r 10 -o output0000000.jpeg

The awkward looking -t argument is there to cope with the fact that streamer needs to know how long it's going to be recording for. Still, that's several thousand years. Just Control+C to exit out when you're done recording.

The -r argument sets your framerate.

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