README ====== You wanna know the whole story? OK, here it is... For information on the prog, (install and so on) just read on... THE STORY ========= I goofed around with my new and nice Philips Vesta Pro (680K) for a week or so. Nothing worked. Except camstream 0.16a (yes, the old version... the new one gave me compile errors all the time) without snapshots etc. [http://www.smcc.demon.nl/camstream/index.html] Then, I found vgrabber.c, made by Phil Blundell in 1998... It was easy to find, if you know what to take... (yes, I was at [www.linux-usb.org] before) [http://www.tazenda.demon.co.uk/phil/v4l.html]. Worked fine with ppm's and a script solution around it to convert it to a .gif and publish it via [http://gecius.de]. But that's the first problem with vgrabber: it supports .ppm only. And because I didn't want to search for a ppm to jpeg tool and .gif ain't no right for a webcam I decided to start a project on my own. Despite all this: 256 colors for a webcam looks just nasty :-). I took a closer look on the w3cam.cgi source and found pretty simple code for the jpeg transition. I grabbed this one, too. [http://www.hdk-berlin.de/~rasca/w3cam/] After several segmentation faults (as I already mentione, I'm not a programmer!), I finally got it working. It does -at the moment of writing this- exactly what I want. Grabb an image from the cam, convert to jpeg and put it directly into the appropriate web-directory. Well, not true anymore. It does a lot I don't need (e.g. ftp, hopefully). But still, I have fun doing this and will continue. So, that's the story so far. Here you go for the installation :-). INSTALLATION ============ Well, this is should be a no-brainer. %./configure This will find out if you have all required libs etc. In case you don't have the freetype lib, it'll just disable the timestamp functionallity. Options are ftp and timestamp. They are enabled by default. If you wish to disable them, add --disable-