publish images to locally hosted IIS5 with webcam attached

S

scott

Hi,

As the subject suggested im simply trying to publish live images from a
webcam plugged into an II5 machine. Im using FrontPage to create the http
page.

Is this possible with some sort of FrontPage plugin ?

Thanks
Scott.
 
J

Jim Buyens

This would depend on the location of the server and on
the software that comes with the webcam.

If the webcam is wired directly to the Web server, you
can probably configure the webcam drivers or service to
save the pictures in a folder that's physically within
your FrontPage Web site, such as
c:\inetpub\wwwroot\myweb\webcampics.

If the webcam and Web server are distant, you would
probably have to investigate aperiodic FTP transfer.

Either way, uploading a new copy of the webcam picture
won't update the Web page that displays it. This isn't a
problem if once every few minutes you replace a picture
with another one having the same name. However, it *will*
be a problem if you want to capture a "time lapse" series
of pictures. In that case, you would have to write an ASP
or ASP.NET page to read the folder where the pictures
reside and create an <img> tag for each one.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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S

scott

hi,

webcam is wired into web server. will give the picture upload method a go
first.

thanks for your time.
scott.
 
S

scott

hi,

cant find anyway to get the software to auto create an image or keep it the
same name.

are there any free asp scripts out there that could help ?

thanks
scott.
 

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