Re: connectix quickcam difficulties

[Paul McDermott <paul@braille.uwo.ca>]

Thanks Syrus, I did just that before I left work yesterday, and it worked 
just fine.  Another question can you make a script to use xv to save the 
file from an extention of ppm to jpg?  Thanks again for all your help.
Paul

On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:

> 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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