ph34r
10-07-2000, 11:39 PM
Relatively easy.
1) Get cqcam - I used v. 0.45a, since the new development ones wouldn't compile for me. Make sure xcqcam works. cqcam itself can be used to write a webcam script that takes 1 or 2 pics per minute and puts it where apache can serve it up. xcqcam is what you will need to do video conferencing.
2) * Bonus Step * Write the webcam script - bash is all you will need to use, and it should be a 2 liner (one for #!/bin/bash and one takepic command). Take a series of images, sequentially named, and then use mpeg_encode tools to make a mpg movie. One I made at work can be seen at http://atec.santafe.cc.fl.us/a3.mpg
3) Make sure xcqcam works, and then get QSeeMe-083b.tar.gz. Unpack it and put the parts where they belong (man page in /usr/man/man1 and binary in /usr/local/bin). Run xcqcam then run qseeme (I wrote a script to do this). qseeme will send a section of your desktop as your outgoing video signal, so just put that area over the output window of xcqcam, connect to a server, and you are done.
[This message has been edited by ph34r (edited 08 October 2000).]
1) Get cqcam - I used v. 0.45a, since the new development ones wouldn't compile for me. Make sure xcqcam works. cqcam itself can be used to write a webcam script that takes 1 or 2 pics per minute and puts it where apache can serve it up. xcqcam is what you will need to do video conferencing.
2) * Bonus Step * Write the webcam script - bash is all you will need to use, and it should be a 2 liner (one for #!/bin/bash and one takepic command). Take a series of images, sequentially named, and then use mpeg_encode tools to make a mpg movie. One I made at work can be seen at http://atec.santafe.cc.fl.us/a3.mpg
3) Make sure xcqcam works, and then get QSeeMe-083b.tar.gz. Unpack it and put the parts where they belong (man page in /usr/man/man1 and binary in /usr/local/bin). Run xcqcam then run qseeme (I wrote a script to do this). qseeme will send a section of your desktop as your outgoing video signal, so just put that area over the output window of xcqcam, connect to a server, and you are done.
[This message has been edited by ph34r (edited 08 October 2000).]