WEBCAM - HTML?

[Sigil81]

HEy, Does anyone know of a way to display a webcam via a webpage using HTML, or some way other than some prog. I have a IBM webcam pro, and I really would like to display it on my website.
any info would be useful.

~sigil81~

 

[sohcrates]

my linux guru friend wrote his own perl script to do that once. but i have NO idea how it works

what's wrong with a program to do it? i use a program called "spycam" and have been using it for years. works great

 

[smp]

I've been messing around with this myself the past few days. I haven't found any good freeware apps except one.... pryme...
I'm using this on windows 2000 and I love it's lack of bloat and simplicity, but it has been crashing for me quite a bit. I'm not really sure why, it might just be my server that doesn't like the constant uploads, but you should give it a try. How it works; it uploads images from your webcam via FTP to your webserver and then you create the HTML yourself and just use the meta refresh tag in the head and specify the time (I did 2 seconds) and insert the <img src> and you're off. It's a really nice little app, let me know if you get it working stably. You should really give it a try though, just cause it crashes for me doesn't mean that it's buggy software (it might be though)..

 

[Sigil81]

Thankx man, Question though. What is a good free web page server to use ftp uploads? I tried using this thing called webcam32 to upload pics to my geocities account, but, for some reason it couldn't resolve the server. However, if i connect via ftp, it worked fine. What server are you using? I'll try it out on geocities though.

~sigil81~

 

[ElNino]

I use ChillCam and it works great! A lot of different FTP options and even streaming audio and video!