sentinel Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Ok, I need your creativity. At work we have monitors which show which rooms are occupied at any given time. Not video, just a diagram of the room layout, and occupied ones will be a different colour. If you're having trouble picturing it, just think of the arrival/departure screen at an airport. Not the same thing, but a similar idea - video that changes, but not that often. There are monitors all around the building like this, but that's *so* 1990s! I want to hook it up to one of our internal web servers. Ideally what I want is pretty simple: I don't need full streaming video, I just want it to take a cap of a single frame of the video (screenshot) at regular intervals (like every 30 seconds, or 5 minutes, or whatever) and copy it to the web server. Either one running locally on that box, or another one on the network. I'd love to hear ideas for both Windows and Linux, but I'll probably end up using Linux. Free is a must. I generally just Google for this kind of thing, but I'm having trouble finding the results I want. Thanks for your help! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jht129 Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 If you dont need video, just download a program that captures at every x seconds and have it upload to ftp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sentinel Posted January 17, 2007 Author Share Posted January 17, 2007 If you dont need video, just download a program that captures at every x seconds and have it upload to ftp Yeah, that's actually my question... I want someone to suggest such a program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 VLC may be able to do the job. It's the swiss army knife for video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Yeah, VLC's great for that, it can stream out almost anything you feed it, including capture devices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rFayjW98ciLoNQLDZmFRKD Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 I've built a quick solution a while ago. It uses gqcam to capture video from a device, saves it in apache's root directory, and is served out to the net. http://hak5.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1740 It should be easily modified for your needs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sentinel Posted January 18, 2007 Author Share Posted January 18, 2007 I've built a quick solution a while ago. It uses gqcam to capture video from a device, saves it in apache's root directory, and is served out to the net. http://hak5.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1740 It should be easily modified for your needs. Cool, thanks! It looks good, but I don't think that that Quickcam software can take tv tuner input. And that's the key piece I'm missing.However, I was able to find this: http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/48671, which is pretty much the same question as mine. If I combine that with your stuff it should be insanely easy. Actually, as I keep looking I find out that mplayer can do it too, as well as a lot of major video players. I haven't figured out how to use VLC's Snapshot feature how to do it yet, but I bet it's possible. All I would need to do is then use something like /dev/video0 as the input to go from a capture card (once the drivers are installed, etc) Cool, sounds really easy. Thanks for your help everyone! :) If anyone has anything else to contribute, feel free - the topic isn't necessarily closed just yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 I find the project fascinating and would love to see the final product so check back with us when you've got this sweet hack all put together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sentinel Posted January 18, 2007 Author Share Posted January 18, 2007 I find the project fascinating and would love to see the final product so check back with us when you've got this sweet hack all put together. Sure! Sounds good :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sentinel Posted March 12, 2007 Author Share Posted March 12, 2007 I find the project fascinating and would love to see the final product so check back with us when you've got this sweet hack all put together. Almost forgot to follow up with this. Another guy in the office ended up using an app called Dorgem with an old AIW on a Windows box. Nice little program actually. Recently our webmaster did up a quick page for it in PHP which adds a timestamp and the auto-refresh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 I find the project fascinating and would love to see the final product so check back with us when you've got this sweet hack all put together. Almost forgot to follow up with this. Another guy in the office ended up using an app called Dorgem with an old AIW on a Windows box. Nice little program actually. Recently our webmaster did up a quick page for it in PHP which adds a timestamp and the auto-refresh. Just like on 1x02! :) Love Dorgem too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SenorDestruction Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 i dunno if you're still confused, but i found a program somewhere(i really dont know, sorry i cant give credit) called hsg which takes a screenshot and outputs it to http://youripaddress. its in here somewhere http://www.z4.cn/tools/ however, i do know how much people love opening small exe files.. so you might not bother trying it... but i place my reputation on it not being a virus :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unasoto Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 I have been looking for a streaming software so that I could stream my TV ati radeon7500. will dorgem work or is it like 1 frame/second? and the link to dorgem is bad. :( I look at it later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sentinel Posted March 12, 2007 Author Share Posted March 12, 2007 I have been looking for a streaming software so that I could stream my TV ati radeon7500. will dorgem work or is it like 1 frame/second? and the link to dorgem is bad. :( I look at it later. The link works fine for me, Google it if it doesn't work. Dorgem's not made for full-motion streaming, but there's a lot of other programs that are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sentinel Posted March 12, 2007 Author Share Posted March 12, 2007 i dunno if you're still confused, but i found a program somewhere(i really dont know, sorry i cant give credit) called hsg which takes a screenshot and outputs it to http://youripaddress. its in here somewhere http://www.z4.cn/tools/ however, i do know how much people love opening small exe files.. so you might not bother trying it... but i place my reputation on it not being a virus :D Cool, thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sentinel Posted March 13, 2007 Author Share Posted March 13, 2007 Just like on 1x02! :)Love Dorgem too. Oh yeah! I forgot about that segment! (Just re-watched the ep - man was the show ever sweet back then!) :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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