Capturing webcam footage

[Scubbie]

I'm looking to capture the images from a webcam in the Internet. Does anyone here have any ideas on what I can use?

The images are updated about once every 3 minutes and are only 352x240 pixels. The whole process will need to run over several days unattended. There is no sound, just the .jpg files.

Normal Screen capture software isn't much use as it'll record far too much and would be too large to handle easily at the end of the process.

I can get the source address and access that directly, without having to access the web page with the footage it it helps.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

[lettice]

Ive been using webcamxp software for many years for my home cctv ip cameras and it is very customisable.
It allows you add a network stream too and set times for when to record etc.

webcamXP - Webcam and Network Camera Surveillance Software

They are also creating a new project as a successor to webcamxp called netcamstudio.
Netcam Studio - Network Camera Monitoring Software

[Scubbie]

Thank you lettice. I shall take a look at that.

[Scubbie]

Ok the Netcam Studio server seems to be more suitable, but insists on recording at a frame rate of at least 1fps and creating its own video.

The images are refreshed about once every 3 minutes, so that's still a lot of frames that don't need to be recorded.

I'm running a longer test at the moment. A couple of initial test failed to pick up a change in the image in the recording, yet the on screen refresh was Ok. I'll know in the morning if it works correctly.

[lettice]

I do not use netcam studio that much, but Im hoping to move my cameras over soon.
I thought you wanted to capture images rather than just video. In the manual for netcam studio on page 37 is a timelapse function, might be closer to what you require.
Also get to grips with the scheduler too, as you will not want to be capturing at night, black image
They are very configurable pieces of software and their support is great in their forums.

[Scubbie]

Ahhh... I'll look for that feature.

I've managed to get the WebcamXP 5 app to record some video from the stills and just playing with the result in VideoStudio.

I'd much prefer to just capture the stills. VideoStuidio can edit them together as a timelapse project, much like I did in the recent Marwell video I posted. The journey part was recorded using my phone and a timelapse app. It created a series of still images which I then used.

If someone can find something that doesn't shove it's own logo in to the saved files too that would be far better.