Webcam Capture Example
After posting the review of webcam software applications, I thought I should put up some example of the output from these applications. Some days ago, I had a camera running from early morning until late in the evening, using the Yawcam software. The camera used is a Sipix Stylecam Blink - not the greatest camera around.
The images was captured using motion detection with Yawcam set to capture 5 images per motion event. The captured images illustrate the importance of placing the camera proplerly: In this case the camera was placed with a too limited "field of shot" resulting in a too short response time for captures. The images have primarily captured objects entering or leaving the frame.
I have put up the captured images in a gallery, powered by SPA photo album. SPA is great: it uses a single (and simple) PHP file, the album is automatically updated when new images are uploaded and images can be viewed in a slideshow.
Browse gallery of captured images
I have also used Yawcam to combine the captured images into a video.
The above Flash video was created by converting the Yawcam generated .mov file using eRightSoft's SUPER conversion tool (that is the actual name, it is not a superlative. But the tool is super). The images were not great quality to start with (640×480 pixels) and the video conversion further reduced quality. The video is also in 640×480 pixels, but shown here in 320×240 pixels.
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