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Okay my task for today is to set up a webcam on my website. Anyone done that before?

I have my webcam installed and running. Now I just need to find some software to FTP the images to my website.

I'll blog my progress in this thread so others can try it themselves =) I mentioned before about a friend of mine who set up a site with live feed on his chickens. =)

cheers for that - might give that a miss then.

MERRY XMAS EVERY ONE<

Digitrader wrote:
> Ok so I have the webcam working....A Challenge as I read that
> there are a few other now using webcams to good effect now, hwo
> would you send sound alomg with the video? can it be done?

Well, all that happens at the moment is that your prog takes a snapshot of your webcam, saves it as a jpeg and ftps it to your webspace. So its not really video. Depends what you want to do really. Theres plenty of progs around that'll record your webcam and save them as avi/wmv which you could upload. Live video streaming (with or without sound) requires dedicated server software though and something your average webhost wont support.

Ok so I have the webcam working....A Challenge as I read that there are a few other now using webcams to good effect now, hwo would you send sound alomg with the video? can it be done?

Kev

Machie! a never like to be beaten by technology tonight I have cracked it Webcam working at last and can be viewed here
Link to Webcam

Thanks for all you help and patience it was much appreciated.

Kev :-)

Hopefully we'll get it working tomorrow Digitrader =) it should be simple, it's just we need to know the right host address.

Yep pressed RUN even went to the home page from where the software was made and its still no uploading Grrrrr its a shame as I can see the camera working its just not uploading via the FTP it will be something really simple but its late and I have had a long day fresh eyes will look at it tomorrow morning.

Kev

Did you remember to press "Run" to get it going? :)

Can you check to see if it did upload the webcam.jpg file? If it hasnt then I guess the program isnt uploading the image like it should. So that's where we need to make sure the ftp address it correct, the username and password is correct and the file path. My file path is public_html/webcam.jpg so I guess putting the URL in there is wrong.

Maybe it should be just /webcam.jpg

Yep am online via a Freeola connection - through a hub but online via broadband

cjh wrote:
> FYI: You have to be online via a Freeola connection to FTP to
> Freeola web space, either via their dial-up or broadband
> services.

Naw you made that look way to easy I have altered the host address to
ftp://www.mydomain.net/htdocs

destination is

http://www.mydomain.net/webcam.jpg

image being saved as webcam.jpg

created a page www.mydomain.net/webcam.html

code on page looking for alt="My webcam"/>

and still its no wurking Arrgh ;-)

FYI: You have to be online via a Freeola connection to FTP to Freeola web space, either via their dial-up or broadband services.