[KLUG Members] Webcam

[Adam Williams]

On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 14:29, Bert wrote:
> With my birthday comming up, I need some advice about webcams (quess why 
> ;-) ). So I searched all the klug messages and found some messages 
> dating from 07/2002.
> The price is nice but what application can I use best? I had no luck 
> with usb so far. The only device I got working with usb is the mice...

Head over to www.gnomemeeting.org and try nosing about in their mail
archives.  These guys are the **BOMB** and their software RULEZ!

> I would like to make 'snapshots', every xx seconds, do a diff and with 
> not enough difference only record that nothing has changed. So most 
> likely the application is best command line based. Writing the 
> application myself is an acceptable option as long I can get the images 
> from the usb interface. 

Like a motion detector?  I think I've seen a couple of these roll by on
freshmeat.