Re: connectix quickcam difficulties
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.
--
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu> UCSD Physics Dept.
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
debian-user-request@lists.debian.org .
Trouble? e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .
Reply to: