[KLUG Members] webcam software

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give Motion a try. It's not exactly geared toward "webcams", it's a motion detection suite, but it has it's own mini server, that you can access via web. It's pretty cool. Keeps my house under watch too.

Adam (g0t_slack)


----- Original Message -----
From: Bruce Smith <bruce@armintl.com>
Date: Sunday, May 25, 2003 4:47 pm
Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] webcam software

> > Any recommendations for webcam software on Linux? I've tried a few
> > different ones (camstream, camorama, webcamd, webcam, 
> webcam_server) but
> > haven't had great success with any of them yet. A couple of them are
> > plain old tough to get running. 
> 
> What are you trying to do?
> 
> I've used "w3cam" to capture JPG's from a shell script,
> and I've used "xawtv" to watch live video from a web cam.
> It's been awhile, but I don't remember either one being
> too difficult to make work.
> 
> > How did the webcam at Boogies work?
> 
> It captured JPG's from a cron job, and transfered them to the 
> web server.  I don't remember what software it used.  But I'm
> sure one of the other Boogies maintainers remembers.
> 
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> Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
> System Administrator / Network Administrator
> Armstrong International, Inc.
> Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
> http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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