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.

In a previous posting, I mentioned that I bought a Linksys WVC54GC wireless webcam. I can’t say that I really think it’s a good camera, but I didn’t hate it so much that I returned it. It does have a kind of cool feature that it detects motion and can email you a small five second clip to any email address you like.

Today, at 10:55, it tripped, and mailed me the following shot of my front door.

Rats. Youtube hasn’t finished processing this quite yet. Check back in a few minutes. It’s alive now.

[tags]Linksys WVC54GC,Bird,Wreath[/tags]