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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# Copyright © 2001-2015 Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>.
#
# Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its
# documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that
# the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that
# copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
# documentation.  No representations are made about the suitability of this
# software for any purpose.  It is provided "as is" without express or 
# implied warranty.
#
# This program attempts to grab a single frame of video from the system's
# video capture card, and then load it on to the root window using the
# "xscreensaver-getimage-file" program.  Various frame-grabbing programs
# are known, and the first one found is used.
#
# The various xscreensaver hacks that manipulate images ("slidescreen",
# "jigsaw", etc.) get the image to manipulate by running the
# "xscreensaver-getimage" program.
#
# The various screen savers invoke "xscreensaver-getimage", which will in
# turn invoke this program, depending on the value of the "grabVideoFrames"
# setting in the ~/.xscreensaver file (or in the app-defaults file, usually
# /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XScreenSaver).
#
# Created: 13-Apr-2001.

require 5;
#use diagnostics;	# Fails on some MacOS 10.5 systems
use strict;

my $progname = $0; $progname =~ s@.*/@@g;
my $version  = q{ $Revision: 1.23 $ }; $version =~ s/^[^0-9]+([0-9.]+).*$/$1/;

my $tmpdir   = $ENV{TMPDIR} || "/tmp";
my $tmpfile  = sprintf("%s/xssv.%08x.ppm", $tmpdir, rand(0xFFFFFFFF));
my $tmpfile1 = sprintf ("%s/xssgv01.ppm", $tmpdir, rand(0xFFFFFFFF));
my $tmpfile3 = sprintf ("%s/xssgv03.ppm", $tmpdir, rand(0xFFFFFFFF));

my $verbose = 0;


# These are programs that can be used to grab a video frame.  The first one
# of these programs that exists on $PATH will be used, and the image file
# is assumed to be written to $tmpfile (in some image format acceptable to
# "xscreensaver-getimage-file", e.g., PPM or JPEG.)
#
# If you add other programs to this list, please let me know!
#
my @programs = (
  "streamer -a -t3 -r1 -o $tmpfile1; mv $tmpfile3 $tmpfile",		# XawTV after 2 sec
  "bttvgrab -d q -Q -l 1 -o ppm -f $tmpfile",	# BTTV
  "qcam > $tmpfile",				# Connectix Qcam
  "gqcam -t PPM -d $tmpfile",			# GTK+ Qcam clone

  "v4lctl snap ppm full $tmpfile",		# XawTV 3.94.

  "streamer -a -s 768x576 -o $tmpfile",		# XawTV
  #   the "-a" option ("mute audio") arrived with XawTV 3.76.

  "atitv snap $tmpfile",			# ATI video capture card

  "grab -type ppm -format ntsc -source 1 " .	# *BSD BT848 module
	"-settle 0.75 -output $tmpfile",

  "motioneye -j $tmpfile",			# Sony Vaio MotionEye
						# (hardware jpeg encoder)

  "vidcat -b -f ppm -s 640x480 > $tmpfile 2>&-", # w3cam/ovcam

  "vidtomem -f $tmpfile 2>&- " .		# Silicon Graphics
	"&& mv $tmpfile-00000.rgb $tmpfile",

  # Maybe this works?
  # "ffmpeg -i /dev/video0 -ss 00:00:01 -vframes 1 $tmpfile 2>&-",

  # "mplayer -really-quiet tv://0 " .		# Maybe works with some cams?
  #         "-ao null -vo pnm -frames 1 2>&- " .
  #	"&& mv 00000001.ppm $tmpfile",

);


sub error($) {
  my ($e) = @_;
  print STDERR "$progname: $e\n";
  exit 1;
}

sub pick_grabber() {
  my @names = ();

  foreach my $cmd (@programs) {
    $_ = $cmd;
    my ($name) = m/^([^ ]+)/;
    push @names, "\"$name\"";
    print STDERR "$progname: looking for $name...\n" if ($verbose > 2);
    foreach my $dir (split (/:/, $ENV{PATH})) {
      print STDERR "$progname:   checking $dir/$name\n" if ($verbose > 3);
      if (-x "$dir/$name") {
        return $cmd;
      }
    }
  }

  $names[$#names] = "or " . $names[$#names];
  error ("none of: " . join (", ", @names) . " were found on \$PATH.");
}


sub grab_image() {
  my $cmd = pick_grabber();
  unlink $tmpfile;

  print STDERR "$progname: executing \"$cmd\"\n" if ($verbose);
  system ($cmd);

  if (! -s $tmpfile) {
    unlink $tmpfile;
    error ("\"$cmd\" produced no data.");
  }

  print STDERR "$progname: wrote \"$tmpfile\"\n" if ($verbose);
  print STDOUT "$tmpfile\n";
}


sub usage() {
  print STDERR "usage: $progname [--verbose] [--name | --stdout]\n";
  exit 1;
}

sub main() {
  while ($_ = $ARGV[0]) {
    shift @ARGV;
    if    (m/^--?verbose$/s) { $verbose++; }
    elsif (m/^-v+$/s)        { $verbose += length($_)-1; }
    elsif (m/^--?name$/s)    { }   # ignored, for compatibility
    elsif (m/^-./)           { usage; }
    else                     { usage; }
  }
  grab_image();
}

main;
exit 0;