Thanks Syrus, I did just that before I left work yesterday, and it worked just fine. Another question can you make a script to use xv to save the file from an extention of ppm to jpg? Thanks again for all your help. Paul
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Paul McDermott wrote: > > > Hello everyone, I just got my connectix quickcam working with debian. It > > takes really good pictures. I plan to use the quickcam as a web camera. > > For an experiment I took a picture of my self and tried to put it on my > > website. The quickcam man pages say that the format is a portable > > pixilmap or .ppm extention to take a picture. the command is: > > cqcam > filename.ppm If I do this it works fine, the file is viewable > > from xv and xpaint. I also tried to take the picture using the file > > formats of .jpg and .gif and the sam thing happens. From inside netscape I > > can open the file and view it just fine. It doesn't work when I put it on > > my > > web-page. The picture looks like a broken picture icon. (I know that this > > is > > a bad way to discribe it - but it is the only way I know how. If anyone > > can > > help me, or you need anymore information please email me. > > Thanks > > Paul > > Hi Paul, > > If you can view the picture with xv, you should be able to use xv to save > the picture in a standard file format such as jpeg. After xv saves the > file, it should work on your web site. > > > Syrus. > > -- > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UCSD Physics Dept. > > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
