Re: connectix quickcam difficulties

[Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu>]

On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Paul McDermott wrote:

> Hello everyone, I just got my connectix quickcam working with debian.  It 
> takes really good pictures.  I plan to use the quickcam as a web camera.  
> For an experiment I took a picture of my self and tried to put it on my 
> website.  The quickcam man pages say that the format is a portable 
> pixilmap or .ppm extention to take a picture. the command is:
> cqcam > filename.ppm If I do this it works fine, the file is viewable 
> from xv and xpaint.  I also tried to take the picture using the file 
> formats of .jpg and .gif and the sam thing happens.  From inside netscape I 
> can open the file and view it just fine.  It doesn't work when I put it on my 
> web-page. The picture looks like a broken picture icon.  (I know that this is 
> a bad way to discribe it - but it is the only way I know how.  If anyone can 
> help me, or you need anymore information please email me.
> Thanks
> Paul

Hi Paul,

If you can view the picture with xv, you should be able to use xv to save 
the picture in a standard file format such as jpeg.  After xv saves the 
file, it should work on your web site.


Syrus.

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Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu>    UCSD Physics Dept.



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