Setup your own webcam
I have received some requests on how to setup a webcam, so here it is
first you need a webcam and a capture driver installed on your system for that webcam (ususally comes on a cd when you buy the webcam, otherwise search on the homepage of the manufacturer)
next you need a programme for uploading a jpeg image to your server, popular programs are
Conquercam and
Webcam32
otherwise search for a programme in a p2p client
I use conquercam and the rest is based on this programme but the basics can be used in any programme
enter the setup menu of your webcam application
1) is where you put the name of your ftp server
eg. ftp.yourdomain.com
2) is where you put the username and password to the ftp server - ask your host or domain provider
3) is the directory on the ftp server where you want to store the webcam image
eg. /yourdomain.com/cam/
4) is what you want the image to be called - it doesn’t matter as long as the ending is .jpg
to display your webcam on the page use WebCam.js found on this site.
Or just put in the picture http://yourdomain.com/cam/webcamimage.jpg where you want the webcam to be displayed.
If you use the last method you might want to put a refresh tag in the head section of your page, it looks like this:
<META HTTP-EQUIV=”refresh” CONTENT=”15″>
<META HTTP-EQUIV=”pragma” CONTENT=”no-cache”>
<META HTTP-EQUIV=”expires” CONTENT=”0″>
<META HTTP-EQUIV=”Cache-Control” CONTENT=”no-cache”>
if you don’t use theses tags the webcam page will not update automaticly