https://github.com/astef/termcam
Camera in your terminal
https://github.com/astef/termcam
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Camera in your terminal
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/astef/termcam
- Owner: astef
- Created: 2025-01-19T12:42:02.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-01-19T20:27:13.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-12-12T23:39:37.609Z (7 months ago)
- Language: Python
- Size: 19.5 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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# Prerequisites
- Install GoCV, full instruction [here](https://gocv.io/getting-started/linux/):
```
go get -u -d gocv.io/x/gocv
```
`$GOPATH` may be not set, but the rest of the path is fine (search for the right path on your system):
```
cd $GOPATH/src/gocv.io/x/gocv
```
This takes a few minutes:
```
make install
```
- Ensure your terminal support 24-bit colors, you can use `tools/` for testing
# Usage
`go build . && ./termcam 0`
- Replace `0` with the index of your video device (usually, from 0 to 6), or with a full path to it
# Features
- Picture size and quality adjust to your terminal size
- '▀' (Unicode 0x2580) is used to maximize vertical resolution, but any other symbol can be used (check in source code)
# Limitations
- It's video rendering in terminal - entire screen is refilled 33 times a second, so it may be slow
- Looks like there's no good way to avoid extra line below the picture, otherwise scrolling happens
- Periodically I'm receiving empty frames from my devices (tested with two cameras): see `error reading from webcam: empty frame`. You may want to remove the line, which prints this error to avoid flickering. I've left it for diagnostic purposes.