[MPlayer-users] unsing mplayer with a web cam for streaming

[Hetz Ben Hamo]

> I had an idea to use mplayer with tv input to get images from a
> webcamera and then send them to a http server to publish that page on
> the web.
> My idea is to save the output with the option -vo jpeg and put that
> image on the web page with a cgi-script.
> My only problem is that mplayer saves different images, one per frame.
> Maybe is it possible to save every frames on the same jpeg image (or
> png) ?
> Or someone of you have a different idea to do that ?

There are lots of programs to do the exact same thing:

You can use the "webcam" program which is part of xawtv, ffmpeg which can do 
the same and other programs (search freshmeat.net)..

Thanks,
Hetz