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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