Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 10:36:16 -0500 From: Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com> To: Kraft Jeremy <std@pimpin.bigbootyhoes.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Video capture [was:Re: small problem...] Message-ID: <19980130103616.18784@vmunix.com> In-Reply-To: <199801290320.VAA19699@pimpin.bigbootyhoes.com>; from Kraft Jeremy on Wed, Jan 28, 1998 at 09:25:49PM -0600 References: <199801290320.VAA19699@pimpin.bigbootyhoes.com>
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On Wed, Jan 28, 1998 at 09:25:49PM -0600, Kraft Jeremy wrote: > Hello, > I have a small problem here, maybe some of you can be of great help. > I work for a local ISP, and we're about to start doing some work > for a weather station. We need to take input from a video camera, > and somehow get it to take shots every say, 10 seconds, save it into > the (preferably UNIX) machine. The purpose for this: They already > have a "weather cam" that is hooked up, and shows on the nightly news, > (6 and 10pm) -- they (and we) want to stick this "weather cam" online. > > If any of you know of anything that can do this, it would be greatly > appreciated. You can either just mail me personally, or here. I'd say ask on -multemedia . My guess would be to stick a Haupage WinTV card in the box and plop a "normal" video camera feed into it, and take a snapshot every once and a while (I think there are programs already developed that will do this). Just throw the result to a file and everytime the web page is opened you'll have theupdated picture.. I also remember someone else doing pretty much the exact same thing.. you may want to search the archives.. -Mark > > Thank you, > > Jeremy Kraft, Network Administrator > http://pimpin.bigbootyhoes.com/~std/ > flydaddy@pimpin.bigbotyhoes.com -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Mayo mark@vmunix.com RingZero Comp. http://www.vmunix.com/mark finger mark@vmunix.com for my PGP key and GCS code ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Win95/NT - 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition. -UGU
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