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Re: [LUG] Exeter Hospital Radio Fun Day

 

Henry Bremridge wrote:

> Works well at home: or at least as long as I did not try and manually set it up! 
> On roaming it works really well (Sweex wireless card from Trago at £12 odd)

Thats good.  I wonder if we should have a page on the DCGLUG WIKI giving 
details of what hardware does work and where we got it from?

>> Talking about web cams, the software I was thinking of for Linux is 
>> called Motion.  It runs in the background as a daemon and tracks motion 
>> on your web cam (or TV/Video capture card) and can either record the 
>> output as a JPG or MPEG4 AVI video.  It has an embedded web server to 
>> help being accessible from the internet.
>>
> Will try this asap: been busy transferring files from xp to $%"!!^ vista and from 
> xp to Ubuntu. 

:(

>> Although it would be great if GAIM (or whatever it's called now) had 
>> support for webcams with audio connecting to MSN Messenger on Windows XP 
>> (or Yahoo messenger on XP), this might solve your problems.
>>
> Or yahoo under Ubuntu? May try that
> 

The last time I tried the Linux version of Yahoo Messenger it didn't 
support video and was a bit ropey, although this may have changed (I 
haven't tried it in a while).  It's something I need to get working, I'm 
getting grief from my ex-wife about me setting up a webcam so she can 
talk to our daughters.  I refuse to install XP just for that!

Rob



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