From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 31 19:19:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA14720 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 19:19:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cc1.ccms.net (cc1.ccms.net [204.96.187.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA14715 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 19:19:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aauu@ccms.net) Received: from ccms.net (aaweber@[204.96.187.187]) by cc1.ccms.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA10022; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 21:50:49 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <35C27B0E.51142D3A@ccms.net> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 21:18:54 -0500 From: Alan Weber Organization: Personal X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b1 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt White CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Webcam with FreeBSD? References: <19980730171426.27780@oakwood.k12.oh.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matt White wrote: > Hello! > > I've decided to try and setup a small webcam in my office running on the > FreeBSD box. I have a B&W QuickCam, but I might be willing to spring for a > color one if I like the way I get this setup. =) > > I have experence with Apache and CGIs, but not with QuickCams on FreeBSD. > I know there is the qcam kernel device so I can talk to the QuickCam, but > I don't know what to use for the software to drive the camera itself. I > assume there's a small program out there I can use to grab a frame off the > QuickCam on demand, but I don't know what it would be, or what would be > the best way to convert it to a jpeg if needed. > > Any suggestions? (Anyone ever done this before? I had a webcam running on > a Macintosh about a year ago, but I think doing it on the UNIX box would > be best...) > > -- > Matt White > mwhite@oakwood.k12.oh.us > > The message was brought to you by the letters B, S and D. > > Linux: The choice of a GNUtered generation! > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Make the /usr/ports/graphics/qcam port. You get three programs, xcqam, cqcam and webcam. I have a script that gives a warning sound, captures the image as a jpeg with cqcam and ftps the image to my web site. Webcam is better if you have the webserver on the same machine. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message