Constantly Refreshing Motion
  Last viewed: Dec 09, 2009, 05:12:06 AM (GMT)

Winnemucca, NV--You're expecting swaying trees and drifting clouds, maybe, from that title, but no, I'm going to bore you with webcam details.

Been playing around with "motion" instead of doing my work, and now have a kind of security cam system in my kitchen/computer room. The features are:

• It snaps a boring static shot every minute for the webcam page
  
• It runs a small httpd daemon on port 8000 that streams "multipart/x-mixed-replace" data. If you have the right browser, you get a constantly updating image.
  
• It senses motion and attempts to make short mpg movies whenever it finds such.
  
  I don't have all the settings dialed in yet, and I'm setting it up conservatively given I only have a 9GB drive, but it's kind of fun. Funner than work.
  
  Way more fun being a movie star than a working stiff, I guess. As my image begins to grace the screens of tens of viewers, I'll bask in that golden glow of poorly jpeg'ed images from a plastic-lens camera that cost $50 on Home Shopping Network. Gag.
  
  So here you go; feel free to send reports on browser compatibility with multipart/x-mixed-replace data to iffy-at-best-dot-com.
  

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