From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Jan 30 07:32:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA16439 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 07:32:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vnode.vmunix.com (vnode.vmunix.com [209.112.4.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA16418; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 07:32:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@vnode.vmunix.com) Received: (from mark@localhost) by vnode.vmunix.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA12027; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 10:36:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mark) Message-ID: <19980130103616.18784@vmunix.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 10:36:16 -0500 From: Mark Mayo To: Kraft Jeremy Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Video capture [was:Re: small problem...] References: <199801290320.VAA19699@pimpin.bigbootyhoes.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <199801290320.VAA19699@pimpin.bigbootyhoes.com>; from Kraft Jeremy on Wed, Jan 28, 1998 at 09:25:49PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" 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