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:
- open maximized mplayer with webcam stream and make screen shots
- 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!