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.TH webcam_server 1 "(c) 2004 Donn Morrison"
.SH NAME
webcam_server - a server to stream webcam video or snapshots
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B webcam_server [-d device] [-p port] [-D[sh]] [-m[bsf]] [-c caption]
.B [-tf R,G,B] [-tb R,G,B] [-tt R,G,B] [-T x,y]
.B [-q jpeg_quality] [-g geometry] [-n] [-x]
.B [-G gamma] [-f[hv]] [-R rotation] [-r] [-s] [-v] [-l logfile]
.B [-a] [-h]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B webcam_server
is a server daemon that can stream frames from any video4linux device to
remote clients running the provided applet or single frame snapshots
running a web browser.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB-a\fP
Enable test mode - does not accept client connections and prints out the
current frames per second (fps).
.TP
\fB-c\fP caption
Set a caption to be displayed near the bottom of each captured frame.
This string can be formatted for strftime() as follows:
%Y - year, %m - month, %d - day, %H - hours, %M - minutes, %S - seconds
.br
The following variables are also formatted:
.br
%%V - webcam_server version, %%f - current frame, %%v - number of viewers
.br
example: webcam_server -c "my webcam %d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S [version: %%V, %%f frames, %%v viewers]"
.TP
\fB-d\fP device
Specify the video4linux supported device to capture frames from.
.TP
\fB-Dh, -Ds\fP
Disable HTTP (\fBh\fP) snapshots or applet streams (\fBs\fP).
.TP
\fB-fh\fP, \fB-fv\fP
Flip image horizontally (\fBh\fP) or vertically (\fBv\fP).
.TP
\fB-g\fP geometry
Set the image capture size. The specified size must be supported by your
video device.
.br
example: webcam_server -g 352x288
.TP
\fB-G\fP gamma
Simple gamma correction. Adjusts image pixels by specified value. Valid range
is -100 to 100.
.TP
\fB-h\fP
Display help and command line parameters.
.TP
\fB-l\fP logfile
Specify a file to print log messages.
.TP
\fB-mb, -ms, -mf\fP value
Maximum bytes (\fBb\fP), seconds (\fBs\fP) or frames (\fBf\fP) per client
connection.
.TP
\fB-n\fP
Force use of read() system call. For some devices this can be faster than
the standard memory mapped method of frame capture. (**Recommended for some
webcams)
.TP
\fB-p\fP port
Listen for client connections on the specified port.
.TP
\fB-q\fP jpeg_quality
Set JPEG compression quality. Valid range is 0-100 (%).
.TP
\fB-r\fP
Retry camera initialization inifinitely upon failure. Useful for when you
unplug your camera frequently; the server will start and wait until the camera
has been connected.
.TP
\fB-R\fP n
Rotate the image 90 degrees (\fBn\fP) times. 1 = 90, 2 = 180, 3 = 270 degrees
.TP
\fB-s\fP
Enable daemon mode via daemon() system call.
.TP
\fB-tf\fP R,G,B
Set text foreground colour. Valid range is 0-255 (for each in R,G,B).
.TP
\fB-tb\fP colour
Set text background colour. Valid range is 0-255 (for each in R,G,B).
.TP
\fB-tf\fP colour
Set text transparency colour. Valid range is 0-255 (for each in R,G,B). To make the foreground or background of the caption transparent, set it to the same R,G,B values as the transparency colour.
.TP
\fB-T\fP x,y
Draw the caption at the specified x,y coordinates in the frame. If the caption geometry (size of the text in pixels) is larger than the width or height of the image subtract the x,y point, the excess text will be truncated.
.TP
\fB-v\fP
Verbose mode - display connections and messages to standard output.
.TP
\fB-x\fP
Swap RGB colours to BGR colours. (Use this if your frames look blue or red)
.SH GETTING STARTED
.P
The easiest way to make sure things are working is to run the server with
no options and try to access "http://localhost:8888" via a web browser.
.P
If your device does not seem to work, try using the \fB-n\fP option to force
the use of the \fBread()\fP system call. Try using your device with other
software and try similar settings with \fBwebcam_server\fP.
.P
If you are using a v4l supported TV capture card and want to change channels,
download \fBxawtv\fP and use v4lctl to configure it. This functionality
is not yet supported by \fBwebcam_server\fP.
.SH SETTING UP THE APPLET
.B Note: The applet must reside on the same host as the webcam_server!
.P
Copy the following code into a publicly visible HTML document. You may have to
adjust some values to fit your needs. Before it can be viewable by others, you
must change "localhost" to the host name or IP address of your server.
.P
.fi
.SH BUGS
.P
Send bug reports to Donn Morrison at donn@donn.dyndns.org.
http://donn.dyndns.org/portalofnnod/webcam_server.html (homepage)
.SH AUTHOR
Donn Morrison
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2004 Donn Morrison
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
.SH MISC
If you enjoy this software, please let me know.