On Thursday 27 May 2004 12:49, Daniel Purdy wrote:
Hello! I was wondering if anyone could help me out by recommending a good program to take a picture with a web cam. What we are doing is we have a D-Link C100 usb web cam set up and pointed at a ketchup packet sculpture. We then set up a cron job that takes a picture using the streamer command and uploads the image to a website every hour. The problem is that in streamer the image is of serverly poor quality and we are looking for a replacement. We are pretty sure that it is streamer that is killing the image since in xawtv the webcam looks great. TIA!
Daniel
Camstream or Motion will probably do what you want. Just look them up in sourceforge.net . Camstream will do the ftp uploading, motion I don't think does that, but it's meant for network cameras or something like that. John --