Web Camera partial success

[David Dunbar <ddunbar@geocenter.com>]

Messy stuff.

On the Wine web site <http://www.winehq.org> on the applications page 
there is a link to <http://sidenet.ddo.jp/winetips/config.html> which 
is about half Japanese but has a download that installs Internet 
Exploder 6 and optionally Windoze Media Player and allows you to almost 
run them under Linux. It is slow as hell and doesn't remember 
selections and caches images. I haven't been able to get to the 
configuration options on IE to see if I could turn the caching off. 
There may be a command option to do this.

However, I could bring up the web camera and see an image. The controls 
seem to work but I have to refresh the page to refresh the image.

The latest Wine (as of last week) is installed on matt. You either need 
to login as me or install your own copy of IE. If you know the root 
password just (su - david), the "-" is important. The download tar file 
is in my home directory. The installation is relatively easy, if slow. 
The command to start IE is:

wine iexplore &

The camera is at <http://192.168.1.50>.

Expect a lot of odd messages in your terminal. You will have to click 
yes or OK on at least two popups to get the images displayed. The one I 
found amusing says it can't connect to the server.

You need an X server running on the machine you connect from. The 
Mandrake machine I set this up from worked OK except for screen size 
problems. I also connected from two different Windoze boxes. On one the 
X server I used was WinaXe and on the other XVision. Each allowed IE to 
display on one machine but not the other. The bottom line here is 
unless you really have a reason to use the web camera remotely, it is 
probably too much trouble, especially from a Windoze box.

David
David Dunbar <ddunbar@geocenter.com>
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