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Wednesday 08 December 2004 5:32:24 pm
As far se my experience goes, the web cam can send you data in two (most popular) ways. The first is sending a jpeg image as you mentioned, and the second is using live streaming. In the first case the mechanism usually works like this: the picture is sent to the server and then stored somewhere. In which way it depends on the server. It could be done via email, ftp, web form or some other way. If this case is your case, check out how it's done and where the picture is stored. Then you should just include this image somwhere in your page, it can be done independently, without using any of the eZ mechanism. In the second case you shuld use a server that supports live streaming. For this purpose you can use live streaming on the server where your site is located (if it exists) or on some other server. I've never done it, but it should be easy. In my opinion, you should basically, only put a link to the live streaming URL of your camera somwhere on your site. In general using a web cam should be totally independent of eZ mechanism. Hope this helps. I'm planning to do something like this in the future so I would be glad to see what are your results and experiences. Hope you make it.
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