Tutorial to getting a Quickcam 4000 to stream on the net on ubuntu

[a-dam]

Ok. first of all i would like to say ive only tested this on one machine (my own) but hopefully it will work on yours (my machine runs ubuntu).

 

 

Description:

We will use a daemon called "webcam_server". This is a simple client although it uses a automatic update process if you are viewing threw a webpage, we will set it up so your page refreshes every few seconds with the updated image.

 

 

First of all we need a few things:

Code:

apt-get install apache2  (not needed if you have a httpd installed already)
apt-get install php5 (not needed if already installed and configured with your current httpd)
apt-get install libjpeg62
apt-get install libjpeg62-dev
apt-get install libjpeg-progs

 

Code:

su -l

rootpasswd

 

Code:

cd /root/
wget [url=http://belnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/webcamserver/webcam_server-0.50.tar.gz]http://belnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourcefor...ver-0.50.tar.gz[/url]
tar xf webcam_server-0.50.tar.gz
cd webcam_server-0.50

 

 

Code:

./configure

if you receive any errors please investigate. If you receive warnings this is usually okay.

Code:

make

Code:

make install

 

 

now to get your webcam online so you or friends can view it.

 

If your htdocs directory is /var/www (default on ubuntu) type

Code:

mkdir /var/www/client

Code:

cp /root/webcam_server-0.5/src/client/webcam.html  /var/www/client/webcam.html
cp /root/webcam_server-0.5/src/client/applet.jar  /var/www/client/applet.jar

 

 

once done this is the script installed to your web dir then do;

 

Code:

cd /root/webcam_server-0.5/src
./webcam_server -p 10000

 

open a browser and go to [/url]http://127.0.0.1:10000 also checkout http://127.0.0.1/client/Webcam.html/ hopefully you will see a webcam image (hit F5 to refresh)

 

to make the index.html page of your httpd server the image from the webcam simply make the following index.html file in the /var/www dir

 

img src ="http://127.0.0.1:10000/" align="center" width="300" height="300">

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3">

 

This will retrieve the image from the specified ip/port and update every 3 seconds. (change content="3" to a number in seconds you wish the page to update)

 

always remember to exit your su terminal when done.

 

Also i would like to thank P38 and Varjagy from #linux-noob on efnet for helping me threw out the night when i was gettin my webcam setup!

 

 

I hope this helps feel free to email me if anyone gets stuck lillbastid@gmail.google.com

 

***Live Demo at [url=http://webcam.digital-users.net/***]http://webcam.digital-users.net/***

 

p.s yes i know ive spelt "stream" as "steam" but its 00:48am and im tired so sorry! =)

 

Adam

[a-dam]

Ive also just found out if that does not work trying adding the device manually by doing the following;

 

 

Code:

mkdir /dev/usb
mknod /dev/usb/mixer c 14 16
mknod /dev/usb/audio c 14 35
ln -s usb/mixer /dev/mixer2
ln -s usb/audio /dev/dsp2
mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0

 

im not sure if this will work for any other quickcams or not.

 

 

Adam.