Re: An idea about a webcam....

[Rob Adams <readams readams net>]

Man with that subject line I thought for sure this was a spam message.
I was thinking "damn spamassassin, why have you forsaken me!"

Sorry random thought.

-Rob

On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 20:32 +0200, Jason Brower wrote:
> I wanted a unified way of communicating with video with as many people
> in as many technologies as possible.
> I found this very hard so came to the idea of working around technology
> that almost everyone has on their computers.  This came to 2 things
> A browser and JAVA.
> With that I was able to create a webcam web-page and people where able
> to see me without any problem.  I can talk with my family and they can
> see me.  Even a novice can use my webcam.  They just click with a mouse.
> Of course there are better technologies.  But google video has sucky
> video, we still use it because it is so easy to use.
> I use a combination of the following...(with notes)
> Camserv
>         Works rather well considering it hasn't been developed sinces
>         2003.  Very well built and able to do exactly what I want.
> Apache
>         I am sure I could use something smaller and more streamlined for
>         this use.  All it has to do is provide at most maybe five
>         connections and run under a designated port.
> CamServFront
>         This is a Python, GTK, Glade Program I have made this last week
>         that is a simple front end to camserv.  It provides a nice way
>         to turn of and on the cam and adjust a few settings to meet the
>         needs of the you and the client.
> 
> Here is why I am here...
> I want this to be a part of gnome.  So that people that want to
> communicate with a webcam don't have to screw around with msn, aol,
> ekiga, or any other protocals or programs.  The people that want to see
> your webcam can simply use it.  Nothing more.  Just a click.
> We have see these all the time, webcams online, but none of been
> streamlined for the personal desktop use.
> What do you think?
> IF you would like... add me to your gtalk/jabber I am "encompass at
> gmail" and I can show you a demo of my idea.  I use it all the time and
> I think many others will too.
> 
> Hope to get lots of feed back on this.
> Jason Brower
> 
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