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RE: WebCam
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Galpin)
Wed Nov 18 09:18:23 1998
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 07:17:15 -0500
From: Charles Galpin <cgalpin@lighthouse-software.com>
To: Joerg Mertin <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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Saw an add last night for a fon-cam. A little camera and modem bundled up to
do basically the same thing as well, but via dialup. About $300 though.
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Original Message from Joerg Mertin <redhat-list@redhat.com> at
11/18/98 3:54 am
>On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 05:21:41PM -0900, Ramon Gandia wrote:
>>
>> Any of you have any experence hooking up a web camera to a linux
>> box ?
>> Is it possible to do so? Here is what I want to do. Multable
>> camers
>> feeding photo's to multable web pages residing on a Linux box.
>> Folks would be able to access a url containing an updated photo
>> that
>> changes every few minutes. Apache server on the Linux box. What
>> type of hardware and connection do I need? Any idea of bandwidth?
>> Can a dial-up line handle it? Or would it take ISDN or better?
>
>I got a Net EYE at Home. It is fast, small, and needs only to be connected
>to a HUB through a Twisted-pair line. Configures itself upon power-on
>using the bootp protocoll, and is almost able to generate a "jpg"
>Image-stream you could mae a mpeg-stream from. It=B4s quite expensive
>though.
>
>I don=B4t have any URL by hand, but if you want it, Email me.
>
>Regards
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