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My Webcam Server and Client :) (Read 478 times)
JosephDuchesne
My Webcam Server and Client :)
Feb 25th, 2006, 3:51pm  
Hi,
After being really frusterated at the lack of webcam connectivity between mac and windows, I went ahead and made my own webcam client and server. The server transmits the webcam from your machine and the client simply displays a window. It currently runs in greyscale, 160*120, but it wouldn't be too hard to change this.

www.staronesw.com/webcam/WebCam.pde
www.staronesw.com/webcam/WebCamClient.pde

Instructions are at the top of the source files, you will have to change it to reflect your own server and your webcam model.

The basic idea for the server is:

Each time the webcam reads a frame:
copy the grey value of the pixels to a byte array
send the byte array

and the Client:

read any bytes that are available to the cue
once the cue builds up to 160*120 bytes:
dump it to the pixel buffer
display the pixel buffer each time it fills

Have fun! :)
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