Category Archives: Video and Audio

It is the nature of most webcams that they capture and save to disk still images as JPEG files. The basic problem: how do you display a sequence of these JPEG stills successively to suggest to the viewer live video … Continue reading →

More fiddling around with web cam display options, mostly along the lines of how to either avoid or alternatively ensure the use of ActiveX controls. Maybe the best way is to provide a choice: click here to use ActiveX (witha … Continue reading →

very brief consult with Cathy Yandow re: streaming server access for Across the Fence

increased frequency of DavisCam image capture from 1 hour to 15 minutes. Downloaded all images from DavisCam_1 (47) and DavisCam_2 (47) and Concam (27,000), and made QuickTime movies from them, just to show Allen Josey what to expect.: DavisCam 1 … Continue reading →

See previous post. Did much of the sam ething, but with Davis Construction cam 2. Wrote some PHP scripts that can be called from anywhere to greatly simplify coding oof web pages for others. See static picture 1 static picture … Continue reading →

Played with the configurations of Davis Web Cam # 1. Set it to FTP to chipmunk, set up CGI and web page to display to world, same as Green cam or ResLife cam.  Explained to people why IE needs Active-X … Continue reading →

Spent a fun day making my Mac speak barcodes. This relates back to the Tina art project. I did a number of targeted searches onn the web and managed to find a low-cost software tool that scans barcodes using an … Continue reading →

Two meetings with Allen Josey to discuss forthcoming Davis Center construction web cam. Met him along with Jerry Thorton and Randy Spooner and Ray Lavigne to discuss siting and network/power requirements met him individually to figure out why his PC … Continue reading →

Searched and serached, Found a new utility to try, inqscribe. used it to subtitle Cristina’s movie Much easier than QuickTime Pro. Magpie was useless, as I determined after an hour or so fighting with it.. This one rocks: took just … Continue reading →

Cristina wants her advanced italian class to subtitle a video. Her sample video, however,  was ripped from DVD using VLC player and compressed with DivX codec, which isn’t installed in LRC lab. So there has been some back-and-forth between her … Continue reading →