How can I refresh webcam image?
Colin Paul Adams
colin at colina.demon.co.uk
Tue Jul 20 14:25:21 UTC 2004
>>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander Dalloz <alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de> writes:
Alexander> Am Di, den 20.07.2004 schrieb Colin Paul Adams um
Alexander> 12:41:
>> I have downloaded xawtv 3.93, and I find I can use webcam to
>> continuously upload the captured image to the webserver.
>>
>> But how can I get the page to be automatically refreshed, so as
>> to show the latest version of the image, without the user
>> having to press reload?
Alexander> You may spent a look at motion
Alexander> http://motion.sourceforge.net/. You don't have to use
Alexander> the motion detection, but the tool let set you up a
Alexander> streaming server with automatic picture renewal from
Alexander> your webcam in a specified period. You can even create
Alexander> a nice (often funny too) movie of you webcam
Alexander> shots. Quite worth a check.
Thanks. It is interesting.
In fact I worked out all I needed to do was add meta http-equiv
refresh and no cache headers to the html page, for now.
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Colin Paul Adams
Preston Lancashire
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