wacaw is a command-line tool for capturing images and video (with sound) from connected cameras. It’s a universal binary that works as long as the camera has a QuickTime digitizer component. It works on >= OSX 10.3.
wacaw [OPTIONS] FILE
See wacaw --help
for details on options.
Capture a VGA-sized image and write to sample.tiff
:
wacaw --tiff --VGA sample
Same as previous, but copy image to the clipboard:
wacaw --to-clipboard --tiff --VGA sample
Capture a 30 second VGA-sized movie and write to sample.avi
:
wacaw --video --duration 30 --VGA sample