One of the slightly annoying things about the video camera I mentioned is that it doesn’t actually have a “just return me a single frame of what the camera sees” mode. Well, someone else figured out how to do this with mplayer, and it appears to work. I’ll code up a simple demo here pretty soon.

Addendum: here is a picture snapped from the camera. A cron script runs once every two minutes to update the file on my webserver.