Re: Using a webcam

Wade Smart wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:

On 23/03/2008, Wade Smart <wadesmart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

03222008 2019 GMT-6

I'm working on a project where I'm writing code to get pictures from a
webcam and uploading them to a server for security. I'm experimenting
with this Logitech QuickCam but after looking through synaptic for
software, nothing really jumped out at me.

Any recommendations?

The software Camorama seems like just what you need.

And if you have trouble getting the webcam to work with Ubuntu, then
PLEASE write to Logitech and let them know that you need Linux support
for their cameras. Logitech is rightfully ignoring the Linux
community, because for some reason Linux users are not telling them
that we need their products to work. We write the ATI, and ATI opened
up their specs last September. Many other companies have followed
suit. Why people are afraid of Logitech I do not know. Here is their
contact page:
http://logitech-en-amr.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/logitech_en_amr.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php?

Dotan Cohen


03232008 1658 GMT-6

The app I was found, Camorama, crashed repeated last night but today is
working fine. I havent had any trouble really with the camera. I just
plugged it in and it seems to work.

And just as a note, Im NOT using this as a security camera. Im just
using this as a simple test camera as I do not yet have the security
camera to test from.

Wade



Hi Wade, I have a logitech webcam. In fact I have 2 of them and had
to buy the second one because the first didn't work with Skype for some
reason. But I got the second and it works fine.

This to say that it is easy in Skype to choose an image and save it
as a .jpg file. So what you want is there.

I expect you want to set things up so when there is motion in the
scene you start saving pictures. The software to detect motion will be
tricky :-)


Karl


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