Re: time-lapse webcam software

I had the same thing working with Augustine during the erruptions. And
then for the locks at the Panama Canal as well. I think he wants to
use his webcam which he is unsure of its Linux compatibility and store
and forward frames to an archive.

On 7/11/06, Kevin Miller <Kevin_Miller@ci.juneau.ak.us> wrote:
> I'm unclear if the images from the web are stills that are updated every
> few minutes or if they're streaming. If they're just stills, you can
> easily grab them with wget and a cron job. I've been capturing the
> images (5 minute refresh interval) at:
> http://www.fs.fed.us/r10/tongass/districts/mendenhall/webcam.html for
> the same reason - thought a time-lapse of the glacier over the course of
> a year might be interesting. The image is always named the same so I
> just do this in a cron job: wget -q
> http://www.fs.fed.us/r10/tongass/webcam.jpg
>
> Well, actually I have a script that does that as well as renames it and
> drops it in a directory. My base directory is called webdir. The
> script makes a subdirectory based on the month, then a subdirectory
> under that for each day where I drop the still image. The images are
> named based on the time so they collate in the proper order.
>
> What are you going to use to turn the stills into a movie with? =20
>
>
> ...Kevin
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Received on Tue Jul 11 08:40:07 2006