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lookout888
10/30/2006, 10:49 AM
It is not all that great looking now but will soon improve it. (I did it at 10:00pm last night.

Let me know what you think



Click here. (http://www.lookout888.com/webcam.html)


Mike
a2fire2i
10/30/2006, 12:45 PM
Hahah..thats pretty cool. I am guessing your urchin is a camera hog?
cuncator
10/30/2006, 12:47 PM
Cool stuff; I've been meaning to do this for a while. Then again, maybe I should wait until after the cyano is under control :\ What are the black lines in the foreground?

The image doesn't display in Firefox but works fine in IE. Go figure. Might be good to change the IMG tag to use "/" instead of "\". Also, the clicking from the five second refresh has driven me a bit insane(r).

Are you using an IP camera or capture card?
lookout888
10/30/2006, 12:56 PM
The black lines are my 12+ inch urchin. Right now I have a webcam using capture software. I am not too impressed with the webcam. I am working on the java script to refresh just the image and not the whole page. I will update when I get it done. I was also going to try and stream video but I will have to run a network cord to my fish tank since wireless is unreliable.

Thanks for the Input KEEP it coming.

Mike
lookout888
10/30/2006, 01:42 PM
Ok the page should be better now. No clicks :) Let me know if there is anything else. I will redo the page if I decide to keep it up :)

Please more feed back..
Thanks
Mike
cuncator
10/30/2006, 01:51 PM
Hehe, fun with Java. Works fine in Firefox.

What's the native resolution of the camera, 320x240 or 640x480?
lookout888
10/30/2006, 02:14 PM
I need to play with the camera settings. I did it for 30 mins last night and that was the best I could get out of it.

It is a
Microsoft LifeCam VX-3000

Maximum Still-Image Resolution 1280 x 960
Sensor Type CMOS
Built-In Microphone Yes
Camera Design For desktops
Maximum Video Frame Rate 30 fps
Maximum Video Image Resolution 640 x 480

I believe the still image is unconverted.

I am also going to have to move the cam up some so you dont see the urchin all the time. That is his new daytimg spot.

Mike
a2fire2i
11/02/2006, 12:14 PM
What happened to the fish cam?
ladyfsu
11/02/2006, 12:22 PM
This is something we wanted to do in my classroom on one of the tanks. I didn't see it so I hope you get it back up.
lookout888
11/02/2006, 04:52 PM
It will be back up. Something must have apponed to the computer and I have not had a chance to fix it. It will def. be up tomarow morning.

Mike
a2fire2i
11/07/2006, 12:53 PM
Is the fish cam still down??
Agu
11/08/2006, 11:09 AM
It's working but the colors are kind of strange.
a2fire2i
11/08/2006, 11:34 AM
Mike..do you have any recent full tank shots? It looks like all your corals are growing like crazy!
lookout888
11/08/2006, 01:49 PM
Yea I am trying to work the color thing out. I am not to impressed with the camera. It may be that i have 720 watts of light right above it. I am not sure. I dont know if i have time this weekend but i am going to work on it. Also going to get up a streaming link but connections will be limited due to bandwidth.

Will let you guys know.

Mike
lookout888
11/08/2006, 03:59 PM
Ok I know posting this will probably bring the computer down but i got the stream going. It's a little ""stop and start"" due to the computer is not being able to handle the encoding. I will fix this eventually:-p

Open windows media player- go file- open url

Type in

http://70.126.135.236:80

Let me know the outcome :) i have to play with the video quality some more but to me it is not to bad for what it is setup one

Feed back wanted :)

Mike
lookout888
11/08/2006, 04:40 PM
Well the server just went down LOL I will have it back up around 5:10 pm today. I will post when it is back up.
lookout888
11/08/2006, 05:20 PM
ok it should be up now.
lookout888
11/14/2006, 02:36 PM
Well over the last 2 days i have scraped my front glass free of all coralline. Look at that reflection. I am still looking for a little beefier computer for the web stream. What do you like better the Streaming video or the picture that updates every 5 sec. I would like to do both but until i get a little better computer it is one of the other.

Let me know

Mike
lookout888
11/14/2006, 03:27 PM
Sorry dup post.
cuncator
11/14/2006, 05:00 PM
Hey Mike,

What are you using to stream? Darwin, Windows media services or something else?

I vote streaming video, as long as your bandwidth doesn't suffer too much :)
lookout888
11/15/2006, 08:10 AM
I am using windows media encodoer. It should be fine on bandwidth.
Thanks

Mike
lookout888
11/20/2006, 12:54 PM
well cable modem re-set Here is the new address


Open windows media player- go file- open url

Type in

http://24.164.26.122


Mike