Looking for a Webcam client

mark.johnson · 03-13-2005, 02:27 PM

I made the switch from Windows about 2 weeks ago, and I've found alternatives for all the programs I used to use except for one: My webcam client.

I used to use a program called WebCamFirst, which look a picture from my webcam at regular intervals, then uploaded it via FTP to my web space. Does anyone know of a similar program for Linux?
A GUI would be a bonus, as would it being available via apt-get

Thanks,
Mark

Adrohak · 03-13-2005, 02:35 PM

You can use streamer, I believe it's included in the XawTV package. Combine that with a quick shell script, maybe something like this:

Code:

while [ 1 ]
do
 streamer -o webcam.jpeg
 (some code to automate an FTP session to the host)
done

netcrawl · 03-13-2005, 02:49 PM

I use Camorama; it does what you want... no idea if it's available via apt-get...

ZeroXsk8brdr · 03-20-2005, 08:28 PM

yes, it's available on apt (Synaptic)

apt-get camorama

On Debian systems, it will install 0.17
Trying to get it to work myself.