camE 1.9

camE is a Webcam grabber designed for video4linux devices. It is based on the xawtv webcam app, but extended to use imlib2 for applying antialised, blended truetype fonts to the image before upload.
A large number of new options have been added including scp support (in addition to ftp), image archiving, and much more. It runs as a daemon and needs no X connection to operate.
Main features:
- ttf fonts
- blended transparent text
- title text
- options in ~/.camErc
- message read from separate file (eg echo "eating my dinner" > ~/.caminfo)
- color the text as you like
- text background any color/alpha value
- scp support for uploading
- ftp support for uploading using libcurl, reconnect for each upload or reuse one connection
- proper logging to file
- user defined actions to be run before and after shots, and after upload (use to play sounds, beep, run scripts, copy files, whatever)
- file for stopping uploads temporarily (touch ~/BLOCKCAM to stop shooting, remove it to resume)
- now a proper daemon that can run without X forever if wanted
- control of brightness, contrast, gamma, hue, colour, etc
- control of framerate and use of snapshot mode for Philips cams
- image archiving (timestamped into a directory of your choice after upload), every frame or every n frames
- lag reduction (for some cams, when mmaped, the image grabbed lags behind the cam by up to 20 seconds. I use lag_reduce 5 in my ~/.camErc for example. This takes 5 shots in a row, which clears the mmap buffers, and then keeps the last shot, lag-free)