Remote USB camera

[smason]

Hi all. I've been using Zoneminder for a while now with a single camera connected to a vidcap card in my Linux box. Works great!
I Just upgraded to 1.22.0

I have a need to monitor an area that I can't get a cable to, so I dusted off an old USB cam and plugged it in to a Win2k box.
A forum search turned up:

Dorgem at http://dorgem.sourceforge.net/ is a Windows-based open-source webcam for Windows. It has a few neat capture features, but the useful one for ZM remoting is the web server feature which can grab a single frame (set the duration to 0 seconds).

This looks quite promising, but.... If I set it up as a web server, it works when I point IE at it, but when I configure Zoneminder to use it, it gets nothing. Looking further, it appears that dorgem creates the single .jpg file but calls it index.html That would explain why Zoneminder isn't seeing anything. I can get dorgem to ftp an image, and that works, but I'd rather have ZM poll the web server on the 2k box. Anyone else using dorgem?
Or using a cam on a windows box as a remote with a better software solution?


Thanks,

Steve

[Flash_]

I've done this using a similar frame-grab-and-save-jpg method, but using Samba and Windows networking so that Zoneminder can fetch the image from a "File" on the local filesystem.

FPS ain't great, I think I got 2fps which was ok for me.

[smason]

Thanks, that's what I did. I wound up using dorgem and autosaving via samba.
It's working, though I get the odd partial frame. Good enough for my immediate needs. I hope to get an Axis or Panasonic network camera in the future.

[sugacapra]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dcamserver/

this work good for my try...

[smason]

I tried dorgem again, and this time it worked using the built-in web server.
I'm getting much better results than saving to Samba.