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Mention libcamera in README.txt
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Matthias-Wandel committed Jun 2, 2023
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It serves a similar purpose as the software "motioneye", but operates on still frames
instead of video. This makes for much better image detail, but frame rate is at
best 4 fps with a v1 camera module (v2 and hq modules are slower)
best 4 fps with a v1 camera module. v2 and hq modules are slower.

Images are initially captured to ramdisk to minimize flash wear, then analyzed and
if significant, saved to flash.
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To use imgcomp, you must compile it.
There are sample configuration files in imgcomp/conf-examples
Imgcomp uses raspistill to dump files into /ramdisk (which is a ram disk)
Imgcomp uses libcamera-still, libcamera-vid or raspistill to dump jpeg
files into /ramdisk (which is a ram disk)
Then reads and compares these files, copies them to ~/saved/.... if they
contain relevant changes.

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