I have a server with Fedora Core 3 on it. I decided I wanted to set it up with a webcam for viewing my birdfeeder. I had an old IBM webcam that I hooked up. It popped right up on the USB port. SO the real question is how to pull the data.
I found a spiffy app from Intel referenced here.
Sure enough, it compiled on my machine. It wouldn't work with any format but ppm though, so I pulled down a copy of ImageMagick for Fedora Core 3 (as an rpm), installed it, and then added my own little 'snap' script wrapper:
/usr/local/bin/vidcat -f ppm -o /tmp/test.ppm
/usr/bin/convert /tmp/test.ppm /tmp/test.jpg
cp /tmp/test.jpg /var/www/html/pics/
I added this to my crontab, and voila, an automagically updating webcam.
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