From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Mon Sep 09 2002 - 23:38:04 MDT
>Well, that HUD stuff sounds sexy, but remember that I am
>hoping to set it as a privately funded system. Anyone
>can donate as much as they want to afford, or as little as a
>location to mount a webcam that someone else supplies. spike
Hmm, I don't really want to spend any more time cruising people's webcam
pages... urg.
But it looks like they just spew out to a jpg file, updating periodically.
So if you could get people to register the URL of the jpg (or other picture
file format), location information, and refresh interval, in a P2P system,
then writing a nice client (browser or app) would be almost trivial.
In fact, there are examples of this kind of thing already, for vanity
webcams... see http://cams.overnow.com/ for one example. (here's the simple
webcam tutorial from that site: http://www.overnow.com/camhowto.html).
If anyone wants to really do this thing, let me know... it looks both fun
and relatively simple.
Emlyn
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