tv quality - even a jpeg every second or so will be fine. Trouble is, all the software I've found so far assumes X and many other heavy libraries. All I want is to capture jpeg images - I could write the TCP/IP server part myself.
This *might* be close to what you're looking for. It's lightweight and runs great.
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