Re: Web Camera partial success

[droege@snapmail.us]

David Dunbar has made the ethernet camera work!  Many thanks David.  A
great success for my purposes.

If you look now, you will see me at work.  Later you will see my chair at
the terminal with a note on it.

The password to David's directory on matt is the same form as the one I
gave all of you.

In a few days I will move this camera to the tower to watch TOM1.  If it
keeps working, I will get one or two more and put one in the dome and
another to watch the bird house.  Great fun!  This will same quite a few
miles on my artificial hips.

Tom Droege



> 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>
> All things being equal, all things are never equal.
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