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Originally Posted by NoodleKnight
Hi,
I was wondering if there was some program which could basically capture images from a webcam at timed intervals then load them onto a server.
More specifially:
The webcam will be attatched to some old WinNT machine down where the robot is. Every so often the webcam will take a picture, then upload that picture to my linux server, where it can be viewed. The computer at the robot room is some old Pentium 1 junk running Windows NT 4.0; the server is running RedHat 9.0 (Apache 2.0.40, MySQL 3.23.58, PHP 4.2.2, FTP not enabled); and the webcam is an IBM USB Net Camera.
Also, if there is some program out there which would be able to remotely capture images, please let me know.
Thanks in advance,
NoodleKnight
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Microsoft has a free "PowerToy" called TimerShot that does exactly what you describe. You can get it from
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...powertoys.mspx
However, I would recommend that you get the
AT32 Comedy Webcam. In addition to having a build in web server, the ability to upload via FTP, and the ability to save to a local file, it can do a whole bunch of image processing effects, such as adding a caption, the date and time, distorts (funhouse mirror, embossing, blurring, sharpening, etc), special effects such as chromakey and overlays, etc. There is a freeware version, but it puts "at32.com" in the corner of your images.