Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 08:40:41 +0100 From: Jayton Garnett <jay@codegurus.org> To: stable@freebsd.org, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: RE: USB Message-ID: <431018F9.4030009@codegurus.org>
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Hi, There seems to be a need for a web cam streamer for FreeBSD so I have figured out a VERY tempary solution. I just created a web cam "steam" (just a page auto-refresh every 60 seconds). The webcam: Logitech Quickcam Express http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/GB/EN,CRID=2204,CONTENTID=5037 The software: qcamview (you can view a REAL stream with this, but we need qcamshot that comes with it) WebMagick (we only need the convert utility that comes with this) What I did and why I did it? I wanted a webcam stream for my friends/family in Australia, South Africa and the UK. Added a user called cam to the wheel group. added some lines to /etc/devfs.conf: #Webcam own /dev/ugen0 root:wheel perm /dev/ugen0 0644 own /dev/ugen0.1 root:wheel perm /dev/ugen0.1 0644 own /dev/ugen0.2 root:wheel perm /dev/ugen0.2 0644 made a simple script named webcam.sh in my home dir, it looks like this: #!/usr/local/bin/bash qcamshot > ./~/public_html/image.ppm convert -despeckle ./~public_html/image.ppm ./~public_html/image.jpg chmod 755 ./~/public_html/image.jpg Now I added a line to my /etc/crontab: #Run the script every minute. */1 * * * * cam /home/cam/./webcam.sh Then created a html file with the refresh tag set to 60, kinda looks like: <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="60;http://www.mydomain.com/path_to_autorefresh_page">; Sorry if this does not relate to what anyone really needs, but it is 02:39am and im tired :-) and thought at least 1 other person might need this, you can alter the crontab to take images more frequently and set the refresh accordingly. For a FreeBSD NON-guru i feel pretty good that I managed this. wo0t! Hope someone finds this useful. Cheers, Jay... a very sleepy one...
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