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- Short: The ultimate webcam viewer (MUI)
- Author: troels@stud.cs.uit.no (Troels Walsted Hansen)
- Uploader: troels@stud.cs.uit.no (Troels Walsted Hansen)
- Type: comm/tcp
- Replaces: comm/tcp/WebVision20.lha
-
- Introduction
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- WebVision is a viewer program for a fairly recent phenomenon on the World
- Wide Web - web cameras. Web cameras are recorded images published on the web
- and updated at regular intervals. They may show everything from a TV channel
- or somebody's living room to the weather in a city in northern Norway.
-
- You can view these images with a regular webbrowser, you can even have it
- update the page at regular intervals, but WebVision offers a more specialized
- and optimized approach. Web camera sites are configured in a special
- window and viewing one opens a dedicated window, which is sized exactly to
- fit the camera image. Update delay, save directory and other parameters
- are easily configured individually for each camera.
-
- For registered users, an Internet update server is available that allows you
- to exchange sites with other WebVision users. At the last count, this
- database contained over 250 webcams, with more being added all the time.
-
- Requirements
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- · AmigaOS 3.0 or higher.
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- · A JPG datatype like akJFIF or Prodev-JFIF.
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- · MUI 3.8 or higher.
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- · An AmiTCP compatible TCP/IP stack (like AmiTCP, Miami or TermiteTCP).
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- Features
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- · Highly multithreaded operation, busypointers are practically banned
- and all operations can be aborted.
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- · Many advanced configuration possibilities.
-
- · Extremely flexible autosave function for saving camimages.
-
- · Update the hierachical list of camsites automatically over the Internet.
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- · Carefully designed MUI GUI.
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- · Supports CyberGraphX Video Layers for 16 bit images on 8 bit screens.
-
- · Supports many advanced HTTP features such as HTTP proxy (with
- authorization), streaming webcams, Basic authorization, downloading only
- updated images, etc.
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- Version history
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- WebVision 2.1 (17.2.99)
- · Added scaling of images, including submenu with presets in the Site menu.
-
- · Added busypointer while saving/loading sites.
-
- · Added option to disable online check, for example to trigger dial-on-demand.
- (John S Burger)
-
- · Simplified MiamiIsOnline() check and some MUI code for smaller size.
-
- · Changed HTTP request code to allow non-HTTP requests when using a proxy.
-
- · Changed HTTP response parser to allow for a bit of non-RFC compliance on
- the server part. (Buggy site supplied by Skyclad)
-
- · Opening and closing the aboutwindow had a high probability of leaving an
- orphan "WebVision Flame Render Process" in the system. Should be
- completely harmless, but a waste of resources of course.
-
- · Added workaround to Listtree.mcc bug that would seem to delete sites and
- groups outside the "Automatically updated" group, though it was only a
- visual effect. (David Gerber)
-
- · Fixed a couple of cases where "Pragma" and "Proxy-Authorization" headers
- would be sent even if they shouldn't.
-
- · Camlist update on startup wouldn't work unless program update check was
- enabled too.