webcam and movie creation

[Philip Walden]

Francois wrote:
> Hi,
> Finally, my webcam works again using the "uvcvideo" driver. I run a fedora 
> core 6.
> I use a program "fswebcam" to capture an image every 60 seconds, and upload 
> it, on a remote web server. Each image is named "web_image.jpg", and of 
> course, on the remote server, there is only one image at a time. Each newly 
> uploaded image, overwrites the old one.
>
> I have two questions :
> 1) is there a program that could run with my webcam and my distro to display 
> on my web site the continuous video stream captured by it.
>   

Try motion. It monitors a webcam for motion events and captures only 
them. It has an option to turn the events into a movie.

http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome

> 2) If not, is there a way to add each newly captured image (one every 60 
> seconds) to an .avi or .mpeg file. That way I would be able to see each 
> evening a sort of movie of what's happened in my home during the whole day.
>
> Thank you. Francois
>