Re: [Sheflug] Webcam Woes

[Richard Lowe <richlowe [at] nospam.demon.co.uk>]

* James Wallbank (james [at] lowtech.org) wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> As preparation for a more intelligent project than staring at a 
> stupid LED toy in Access Space I'm using Camstream to implement a 
> webcam on a Mandrake 8.0 box. It works fine for about 2 hours, then I 
> get some kind of nonspecific KDE hang. I've tried launching under 
> Gnome or Sawfish to solve the problem, but the errors still keep 
> hanging the stream. There's just a checkbox that says "Error", with 
> an OK button. Press "OK" and the stream resumes! Any suggestions for 
> bugfixes, alternative s/w or solutions?
> 
> Camera: Kensington VGA / USB
> H/W: Compaq P166 Deskpro
> Method: FTP JPG image to server every 45 seconds.
> Stream: (now hung) http://access.lowtech.org/webcam/
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help,
> 


I'm not sure if its been fixed, but there used to be a file descriptor
leak in camstream's ftp code, that would stop it, or the system after a
while.  (although I cant find any mention of it now, so maybe it's
fixed, or I'm thinking of something else).

I use camE (http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/camE/), works ok most of
the time, but doesnt do as much as camstream (just takes the image and
uploads, which is all I really need).

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