NAME¶

ppm2webcam - Supply an FTP/HTTP based webcam with images from a PPM stream

SYNOPSIS¶

ppm2webcam [ options ]

DESCRIPTION¶

ppm2webcam connects a PPM stream to an FTP/HTTP based webcam.

OPTIONS¶

-s server

FTP server to connect to.

-s user

FTP user to connect to.

-s password

Password for FTP user.

-r real-file

Real filename used by the HTML user of the image (default: kino.jpeg).

-t temp-file

Temp file to use on the server while deposting the image (default: kino.tmp).

-l local-temp-file

Temp file to use on the local system (default: /tmp/kino.jpeg).

-f seconds-per-frame

Floating point number indicates the seconds per frame to send (default: 1).

-q quality

Quality of image sent - applies to jpeg and png (default: 80).

Help Options

--help

Show help message.

EXAMPLES¶

Feed from your cam:

ffmpeg -vd /dev/video0 -f imagepipe -img ppm pipe: |
ppm2webcam -s ftp.server -u user -p password

Need some html to handle it? Javascript solution supplied.

SEE ALSO¶

smilutils(1)

AVAILABILITY¶

See http://kino.schirmacher.de/ for the latest version.

AUTHORS¶

ppm2webcam was written by Dan Dennedy <dan@dennedy.org>.