Decided to try my hand at creating live video pictures of my trains. Got a 'CREATIVE' Video WebCam Go package and installed here at home. Works great and easy to set up. But lots of work getting camera settings, lighting and motion activation (moving train) to work the way I want. Never noticed the speed of the trains till I tried taking 2 second shots of 8 frames each! It will take a while to figure out the math! Wife realy thinks I'm crazy now. Web page live but many changes being made. Trains not always running....just another problem with live action!! TRAIN CAM .......Eddie ------------------ Eddie Delozier PRR N-scale www.deloziers.com eddelozier@yahoo.com [This message has been edited by eddelozier (edited 25 January 2001).]
Eddie; I am on dial up acess and I can only get about 25% of the photo loaded before it reloads so I really can't get a picture. Charlie ------------------ Ship It On The FRISCO! | IAMOKA.com
Eddie, I can see the picture ok but shouldn't just the picture reload rather than the whole page? ------------------ Regards Paul #1-Moderator & Member number 50 SPAD Investigator #1 ICQ 61198217 http://users.bigpond.net.au/railroad2000
I increased the refresh rate to give longer time to receive. I'm working on the 'Server Side Push' coding to just refresh the picture. The camera software rebuilds the page at motion ativation, so I must resend it to get new picture. I wish I had a T1 line, then I could run some longer video? Looks like this may take me away from my train duties a bit? Too many pots on the stove. ....Eddie ------------------ Eddie Delozier PRR N-scale www.deloziers.com eddelozier@yahoo.com
Eddie; I can still only get about half of a photo before it refreshes. Charlie ------------------ Ship It On The FRISCO! | IAMOKA.com
Worked OK on mine, in fact I ducked to get out of the way! A guy could get run over! I was expecting it to move across the screen like the smilies and text does. Someday we will be able to see our layouts like on VCR. Open your wallets though. The PCB's are done for it. The rest is in development. ------------------ Watash #982 "See you in the Pit"
It works fine for me ED. I am connected at 33.6 and use internet boost. Your cam works like a charm. Must just find a time when the trains are running. Good work
Robin, The top frame on the webcam picture page has a link to an indexed page of moving videos. The camera program takes a predetermined length of video and then takes the first frame as the static picture. Takes alot of work to get everything working good. Too much video time equals large *.avi files, too little doesn't show enough movement. My long 80+ car train takes 30 seconds to pass the camera. I only take about 6-10 seconds of video. Thus it builds three to four video (.avi) with each pass. The camera is activated by motion(a tricky adjustment and setting). If I run the trains for hours my PC hard drive begins to fill up. I haven't found a method to purge on a regular rate, must do manualy. Also lighting and speed of train needs to be improved to make for better video. ?? The video index files only need 'clicked' on and they will run in your default multimedia player. If only still picture comes up....'right' click on the picture and a player menu will pop up. This may be different from user to user?? My server connection here at home is limited to 56k. Okay for most things but I wish it were faster for video output. It's fun....I'll keep playing with it. ......Eddie
