Re: webcam graber/uploader

From: stan (stanb_at_panix.com)
Date: 12/12/04

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    Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 11:42:06 -0500
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    On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 03:14:53PM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote:
    > On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 11:18:38PM -0500, stan wrote:
    > > I got a webacm the other day, and now that I've got it working I wanted to
    > > put the images up on my webserver.
    > >
    > > I looked at : http://www.aboutdebian.com/webcam.htm, and managed to make it
    > > work with the Debian webcam package, but it just seems to stop working
    > > after an hour or so. The webcam pprocess is still running, but no new
    > > images are being ftp'd to the webserver. I even set up a script in
    > > /etc/rc2.d to satrt this thing on boot.
    > >
    > > Now obviously I could script something, and maybe I should, but I thought
    > > I'd ask if there was a beteer Debian package to ry, firts?
    > Hm I'm using vgrabbj, lftp, cron and a few very short shell scripts to
    > grab the picture and upload it to my ftp server with ftps.
    >
    > Donno if it helps you ...
    >

    Thanks, vjgrab looks interesting. I've fot it working with camE at the
    moment, but i'm not totally happy with the results. Which you can see at:

    http://beachcave.net/webcam/live.html

    So, if I can find a few minutes, I'll try vjgrab.

    Thanks. 

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