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kleinbl00  ·  2964 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: You might not need javascript

I so want to get into it but all the shit I need accomplished is like way the fuck harder than anybody who sucks at compiling should try for. I decided Arduino wasn't for me when I was trying to figure out how to write code that would turn a button press into RS232 and even that was well beyond my ability. You have my mad respect.

Hey, you're smart. Know what I want to do? I want to use a RaspPi or equivalent to pull a webcam image and display it full screen. Or pull a webstream and display it full screen. That's it. Like, I want a live-capture photo frame. Why is this so hard?





user-inactivated  ·  2964 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't have a webcam handy to test with, but I think something like

   mplayer tv:// driver=[you'll have to figure this part out yourself] -fs -vo fbdev

should work.

kleinbl00  ·  2964 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah I don't necessarily want my own webcam - I'd take, say, this one.