jMicro is a java free software designed for children to use computer microscope with Linux. With JMicro you can take photos, take planned photo and create slideshow video from them. You can also interact with the principal controls of Video 4 Linux and for some microscope (e.g QX3 and QX5) turn on/off the lamps.
Here, some screenshots of the interface:
- Take pictures
- Take planned pictures and create slideshow video from them
- Built-in preview of taken pictures and created videos
- Manage projects
- Set brightness
- Turn ON/OFF QX3 lamps
- Auto updates
- Pressing the hardware button on microscopes does not trigger a new picture
- Filters on images
- If using directories name with spaces when updating another directory path using "%20" instead of the spaces will be created.
- How can I access the Control Settings using the normal user?
You can access the Control Settings using the ALT+C shortcut.
- When reaching the main window the program crashes with an error similar to 'Problematic frame: C [libjpeg.so.8] jpeg_suppress_tables'. What can I do?
We found that using the OpenJDK Java version this error might occour. To solve install the OracleSDK java implementation.
All third party libraries are embedded in the program so that the final user does not have to take care of dependences.
Here the list of the embedded libraries:
- vlcj To play videos
- v4l4j To access video 4 linux
- common-compress To extract .tar.bz2 files
- jCodec To create timelaps videos from png images
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The source code is licensed under GPL v3. License is available here.