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If you use
anything other than a personal web cam then you need a capture card to 'digitize'
the incoming video signal. A basic TV card is often enough. This can be
an internal one as shown here or an external model. The more you pay the
better the captured image and the more control you have over it. But you
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Once the capture
card had grabbed the image then the PC needs some software to name the
image and connect to the internet to send the file to a remote site.
This means everyone can see the image without connecting to your PC
directly. You can use a dial up connection or a broadband connection. I
use a broadband connection and this was set up with the help of stannards
a local company. I use a program called image
salsa to name and send the images. I also use movie
salsa to create the time lapse movies. A program called cuteftp is used to upload the movies to the
remote site at set time intervals.
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Once the images
are sent from your PC by the web cam software they need to be stored on a
server or in other words the internet. This can be free space provided
by your internet provider or can be paid for space with a web service
provider. I use easily
for this service.
And that's it!
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