31 Dec 2006 rillian   » (Master)

mikal, try gst-launch v4l2src num-buffers=1 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! jpegenc ! filesink location=shot.jpg

However, my webcam takes a few frames to stablize, so this doesn't really work. You can use multifilesink location=shot-%05d.jpg and ask for 10 or so buffers, discarding the rest, but that requires a shell wrapper. I don't know how to ask gstreamer to do it.

FWIW

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