web cam software

[minestrone]

I am hoping to make a home movie without the conce....

Actually I am hoping to wire up my study where I keep all my tech goodies with a few web cams connected to my always on server, from there I want to FTP the images up to my hosted server. I plan to make them visible from an apache server.

Does anyone know of a decent piece of software, free possibly, that can host a few old USB web cams on the same machine and also FTP images up to a server?

I used to have one but it was pretty mince and I can't find it anymore.

Thanks

 

[Slumdog]

Try Active Webcam

http://www.pysoft.com/ActiveWebCamMainpage.htm

it is labelled as surveillance software however but has the functionality you may be looking for.

 

[NickFitz]

Wilmslow had a thread about this subject last March.

Unfortunately, it rapidly degenerated into an unseemly brawl and required intervention by the moderators

However, Platypus jumped in at the last minute with a recommendation for Active Webcam, as also recommended by SillyQ above, so that gives it at least two votes over the past year. Ergo, probably worth looking at

 

[Platypus]

However, Active Web Cam is not free

But it certainly does have the functionality you're looking for.

 

[minestrone]

Thanks, I managed to find and set up something from http://www.visiongs.de last night just before I hit my scratcher and it was a bit flakey at first but it seems to still be running just now, I think the stability is questionable and might get ditched although it seems to have most of the stuff I want.

Really I want it to save to one local file every 10 seconds so I can pick it up with the apache web server I have but also want it to FTP the file to a server and give it a unique name there.

I will have a look at that thread and Active Webcam.

When I metntioned to the GF that she could check that I was in the house working at my PC when she was at work she thought "great, I can make sure you are not in the pub" Obviously that means taking 20 sample pictures and rotating them on the page with a bit of javascript while I head off for a few afternoon pints.