On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 10:36:36PM -0800, John Waters wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to display a continuous image in REAL-TIME on my homepage. This is
> what I plan to do:-
> 1. use a video camera to aim at the site.
> 2. capture the image by using a frame grabber in a PC.
> 3. run a program that will continuously store the image data into a file.
> 4. ftp the image file continuously to my home page which is hosted in the
> ISP's server.
> 5. by keep updating the files, we should see a continuous image on the
> homepage (eventhough the motion may jerk).
>
> This method seems a bit dumb to me, could anyone give me some comments or
> suggest a better/more professional method?

Sounds like a normal web-cam.  There's loads of those type of sites
out there.  It's *bound* to be documented in web design books / tutorial
web sites.
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