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Please suggest software to take and upload/share web cam photos

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I'm looking for software to take photos with my webcam, every say 60 seconds, and upload them to my web site or somewhere else that they can be seen. Advice plz.
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Re: Please suggest software to take and upload/share web cam photos

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Since you have a website, I imagine you'd be willing to go the command-line route. I'm fairly sure something like this could be scripted, if you're familiar with shell scripting. You could get a frame from the webcam with MPlayer, using apparently something like mplayer -vo jpg -frames 1 tv://. MPV can probably do something similar. Refer to the man page(s) for more information on that. Once you've got that down, you could upload to your site via SSH or something. I don't think it would even take any actual programming.
I'm also Terminalforlife on GitHub.
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Re: Please suggest software to take and upload/share web cam photos

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Thanks for the ideas.
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