webcam request

hi. does anyone sucessfully onlined a webcam 24/7 with a php script in linux based? If so, wanna help me?! (not cgi)

i've worked with webcams, though i'm not sure what you mean exactly.. what's up?

thanks.iam trying to get a webcam online on my server in a php page. there must be some script that grabs the image every 10 or 30s refreshing the page and displays the grabbed image. any thoughts?

yah sure, if you got the software actually uploading the image to yer server every so many seconds then just make a standard img tag and refresh with a meta-tag or something along those lines..

unless u were thinkin more complex?

ahah! thats the easy part. i need the script to grab the image from /dev. i know how to time the refresh, I do not konw how can i grab the image from /dev/(webcam) and use it!

:-/ this don't work?

$cam = "/dev/(webcam)";
echo "<img src="$cam">";

i dont think so. but i've tried anyway, but it doesnt work. /dev/video0 (in this case) its not an image. this /dev streams, and as gnomemeeting grabs the streamed image/s, a script in php should grab too (or at least i think it can be done). it can be done in perl, that i know. iam gonna take a look at php functions

found something that might work. i've found a mime in with we can use a command line "streamer" with many options. it records frames from the selected device with a few good options. it can be done with php or a cron. but in the end its basicaly what you said, we go and get the image from from the recorded images dir. and no cgi!!. thanks and take care from lisbon, Portugal.

yes thats what I'am also looking for but where did you find it, please share it with us!!
greetings from holland