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[James <codegeek98@xxxxxxxxx>]

@decker-christian It's more of a feature request than a bug.. should I
tag it as such?

ffmpeg with the command I've given usually has much better results than
any of the programs xscreensaver-getimage-video uses. Most of the time,
with the default utilities, the picture is quite messed up, at least on
the webcams I've tried. Whereas in the same situation, ffmpeg -vframes 1
gives a quite good picture.

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Title:
  ffmpeg not used by xscreensaver-getimage-video

Status in xscreensaver package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  xscreensaver-getimage-video does not support ffmpeg as a video
  capturing program.

  A command to grab a single frame of video from the webcam would be:

  ffmpeg -i /dev/video0 -ss 00:00:01 -vframes 1 -f png <filename>

  ffmpeg is a relatively common program to have, and so including it as
  an option for xscreensaver-getimage-video would be useful.

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