<HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16735" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px; FONT: 10pt Tahoma"> <DIV>There must be a webcam that is to your liking, take a look at this Philips webcam with a precision 3X zoom and 1.3 Mpixels.</DIV> <DIV><A href="http://www.consumer.philips.com/consumer/fr/fr/consumer/cc/_productid_SPC630NC_00_FR_CONSUMER/Webcam+SPC630NC-00#/consumer/fr/fr/consumer/cc/_productid_SPC630NC_00_FR_CONSUMER/Webcam+SPC630NC-00">http://www.consumer.philips.com/consumer/fr/fr/consumer/cc/_productid_SPC630NC_00_FR_CONSUMER/Webcam+SPC630NC-00#/consumer/fr/fr/consumer/cc/_productid_SPC630NC_00_FR_CONSUMER/Webcam+SPC630NC-00</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Google for "precision webcam -dell" >>> Brian Chivers <brian@portsmouth-college.ac.uk> 2008-11-04 08:54:03 >>> </DIV> <DIV style="COLOR: #000000">Problem is that the webcams don't have the sort of lens that we'd need. I'm looking at a package called "webcam" that's part of xawtv at the mo to see if that'll do it. Brian Guy-Michel Lessard wrote: > My gut feeling is do'nt touch that, get a Linux compatible webcam. It > will be a lot less hassle. I'm sure there will be members here that can > suggest easy to get compatible webcams. > > > >>> Brian Chivers <brian@portsmouth-college.ac.uk> 2008-11-04 06:47:24 >>> > I've been asked to setup a camera over looking our College's playing > field to capture an image every > 30 minutes so we can see how much it is being used. > > I have a camera with that has a composite video output that I'd like to > use and a video input card > (not sure if it linux compatible, if not I'll get one that is *grin*) > but I'm not sure what software > to use to do this. > > Not worried about motion sensing just need a jpg or something every X > minutes > > Does anyone do this ? Any ideas or pointer where to start. > > Thanks > Brian Chivers > Portsmouth College > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The views expressed here are my own and not necessarily > > the views of Portsmouth College > > _______________________________________________ > K12OSN mailing list > K12OSN@redhat.com > <A href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</A> > For more info see <<A href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</A>> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > K12OSN mailing list > K12OSN@redhat.com > <A href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</A> > For more info see <<A href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</A>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The views expressed here are my own and not necessarily the views of Portsmouth College _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list K12OSN@redhat.com <A href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</A> For more info see <<A href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</A>> </DIV></BODY></HTML>