For those interested in doing timelapse stuff in Linux, I’ve found cron + imagemagick’s import utility to work pretty well for getting the source material. My example:
* * * * * DISPLAY=:0 /usr/bin/import -window root /home/jakkarth/src/ld18/timelapse/”`date`”.png
Afterwards, just pipe it through ffmpeg or mplayer or something to convert to video format. Works even with compiz enabled!
Tags: timelapse
(not sure if i’ll do it though… also i have freebsd so it’s /usr/local/bin/import but nevertheless)