Web Cam Interaction - Tech Support Forums

dr_alinaeem · July 13th, 2004, 06:26 AM

Hi,

I am currently in the process of doing a project, within my project I want my web page to interact with a web cam. In other words I want my website to access a webcam, so that a user can see what the webcam is seeing via the site. I would be very grateful if someone could give me a bit of an idea on how to make a webpage interact with a web cam.

Thanks

jkrohn · July 24th, 2004, 12:55 AM

Well there are lots of ways. First and foremost, what system is this on. IF it is linux I can give you a variety of nifty solutions.

Jkrohn

noseBleeD · July 24th, 2004, 03:03 AM

If it's windows, I can help you also

(vb6)

BeatYouWithShoe · July 24th, 2004, 04:58 AM

You just a basic page that display the image the cam is seeing? Or by interaction do you mean some crazy system you click "Right" and the webcam moves right. haha, that would be cool.

noseBleeD · July 25th, 2004, 03:32 AM

Anyway, for those interested in a vb6 project, I've finally found my zip disk with some older code written in part by myself that:
1. Displays webcam video
2. Creates Snapshots into jpg format (with help of dll named picformat32.dll)
3. Uploads the Snapshot to your server (website), either automatically or manually.

Server, Username, Password variables need to be filled in to match your own.

This is just a newb starter project that I'm offering at geocities/vbprograms123 called WebCam Capture And Upload Client, and zipped as capture.zip

You may need to "Run" regsvr32 picFormat32.dll" command to register the control.
It's a good starting point for adding motion detection and sending the images caught to email server.

Noble

LeftCoast · July 25th, 2004, 03:40 AM

Talk to the people of "VoyeurDorm" here in Tampa.

That's interactive.

BeatYouWithShoe · July 25th, 2004, 05:42 AM

Beelte! We don't talk about such smut on these forums...

dr_alinaeem · July 26th, 2004, 09:34 AM

Thanks for ur replies,

The operating system is windows, and i need the basic page that displays the video image the cam is seeing.

Thanks

noseBleeD · August 2nd, 2004, 02:03 PM

dr???
Do you want html???
I've followed the 2 posts from you and still can't pin down what you "really" want.

Your web site needs to" interact" with the webcam.
"basic page that displays the video image the cam is seeing", is not really the same thing.

I don't know how to create a remote server app to handle the client app. which your first post seems to indicate in your request. I do have a vb project that is an example of a client uploading to server, the webcam images.

The server just receives the image file as an ftp request is handled. The web page simply should have a refresh script edited in with an <img> tag pointing to the relative address of the image file that was just uploaded to your server.

So I ask, do you want client-side app that displays the webcam image and then uploads the image at specified interval to your website which contains a page that displays that image using something like <img src="webcam.jpg">, with a refresh jscrip or vbscript inserted?

Or do you want a client-server app that displays live streaming and allows a user to control the webcam from their own machine, or from the library, or anywhere your site can be logged onto, or pan around like beatwithshoe asks, or talk like leftcoast asks?

Or do you want , in a specific programming language required by your project to be able to just "capture" your webcam device, and by page you mean window?

You can't just use a web page to capture your webcam without a client app to send the image(s) from your webcam to your website that has the web page that contains the code that displays the image that the client has sent, that anybody who visits will be able to "interact" with.

In other words, unless you can formulate exactly what you want, you probably won't get a response you "really" need.

jomoal99 · August 6th, 2004, 12:00 PM

If it's just simple as you said just a web cam on basic website. why don't you Create tidy link on your webpage, link this to uploaded video files on your server. When the visitor clicks on the links then it will open up with the video on it. You could develop this further with more space- upload different angels of the object use different graphics represent the links and then "link" them to video files on the server.

this the most basic and paharps crudest way to do it- very little know how but a lot of server space