Alpha release of capture application for Linux

jamesf

A re-post of what I've posted elsewhere...

A binary (32-bit and 64-bit x86 only) alpha release of my capture application for Linux is now available from http://www.fidell.co.uk/oacapture/oacapture-0.0.1alpha1.tar.bz2

I really do mean alpha. It may eat all your data and throw it away. The weather has been so poor of late that I've not even had a chance to test it properly in "real world" use myself. Much of it isn't even implemented yet. But if you want to give it a try and give me some feedback please do. I'm half-expecting that it will fall flat on its face before it even gets installed.

In theory cameras supported by V4L2 should work. In practice V4L2 support for some cameras is ropey. v3.5 kernels and later seem to support the SPC900 ok, but earlier v3 kernels look dodgy and that camera probably won't work right now. The ASI cameras should work and I've tested the 120MC and 120MM.

I've run the application successfully on Mint 15, Mint 14, Ubuntu 12.04 and Fedora 19. Beyond that you're in pretty much unexplored territory.

This is and will remain an open source system. For the moment, if you'd like a copy of the source just let me know. However it is all hideously cobbled together and there's no build system as such, and it will all change rapidly as I undo many of the bodges, laziness and inadequately thought-through bits so unless you're pant-wettingly desperate to see the source I'd appreciate having a bit more time to deal with that, at which point it will just become another part of the release.

Oh, you'll need a username and password for the above URL, too. They are "alpha" and "centauri" respectively.

James

Sam@ZWO

Its a great news for linux users!

helium5793

HI James,

I sent you an email today about my results with linux. I have installed oacapture in Xubuntu 16.04. It runs, It shows previews but crashes when one tries to record. I sent the error message with my email, it was a floating point problem.

I have also attempted compilation and installation on Fedora 24. I got through the configure part after installing several items (I have notes if anyone is interested), and make got a long way before crashing.

It crashed as it did not like my version of automake. I have 1.15 installed. The error message was:

WARNING: 'automake-1.14' is missing on your system.

You should only need it if you modified 'Makefile.am' or

'configure.ac' or m4 files included by 'configure.ac'.

The 'automake' program is part of the GNU Automake package:

<http://www.gnu.org/software/automake>

It also requires GNU Autoconf, GNU m4 and Perl in order to run:

<http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf>

<http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>

<http://www.perl.org/>

Makefile: recipe for target 'Makefile.in' failed

make: *** Error 1

make: Leaving directory '/home/jduchek/Downloads/oacapture-1.0.0/ext/libusb'

Makefile: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed

make: *** Error 1

make: Leaving directory '/home/jduchek/Downloads/oacapture-1.0.0/ext'

Makefile: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed

make: *** Error 1

make: Leaving directory '/home/jduchek/Downloads/oacapture-1.0.0'

Makefile: recipe for target 'all' failed

make: *** Error 2

I tried to install it, but it was already installed. I installed make-devel and tried again

it failed

I would like to work with you on getting this running on linux, particularly Fedora, but I have a virtualbox that I can install most any flavor to be tested. Mostly I can run things and find errors. Thanks for your work!!!!

John

jamesf

I'll answer your email as soon as I can. I was out at a swimming competition over the weekend, so I'm still catching up with things.

James