Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Brilliant!! Thanks very much snibgo. Now to try some test scripts.

snibgo wrote:On some versions of wget, you can "-O-" to download to standard output, then pipe it into convert.

Can you get me started with how to pipe it to convert? (sorry, still learing the intracacies of commandline and scripting)

Can you (temporarily) change the server so "guest:" isn't required? Unfortunately, that camera won't allow for access without authentication. The guest account was the closest I could get to no authentication. There's also the colon with the port numbers. So if IM doesn't like colon's I suppose it ...

I have an IP camera, where a snapshot image is available from the URL [url]http://userid:@ip-number:port/snapshot.cgi[/url] (I have a real ip and port number of course). This works fine from a browser. I'd like to grab that image and add a timestamp to it using IM. The command line (or script) I've ...

Perfect! Thanks. Wasn't sure how to do both from one commandline, but tried it and worked beautifully!

I want to be able to add the system time and date (not EXIF tag data) to an image running from command line. For the life of me, I cannot figure out how to get the system date. I am using IM on linux. (I have found on windows I can use %TIME% to return the system date and time, but doesn't work on ...

Thanks all. The simple exec() code worked like a charm! Takes about 1-2 seconds to convert the image and display it. Many thanks.

If on Unix/Mac (or Windows w/Cygwin), you might like to see my script, fisheye2pano at the link below. It has a few more features, but is slower, since it was built before distort depolar. Thanks for this. I had actually tried your script previously. It's a bit too slow however for the "real-time ...

Hi. Could use some help with a script to convert an image that is taken with a 360 degree camera into a rectilinear panoramic image. From a command line, the following ImageMagick command works wonderfully convert source_picture.jpg +distort DePolar 0 output_picture.jpg I'd like to be able to create ...