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Dorgem (webcam software)
24 May 2006 21:09
Dorgem is a nice and neat application to transfer pictures from your webcam to your website. It eats just about 1 MB of memory, supports FTP and HTTP uploads or can call an external application. It is possible to combine the methods and upload to more websites at once.
You can download Dorgem at http://dorgem.sourceforge.net.
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Installation of Dorgem is straightforward and easy like any other application. After I launched Dorgem, my TwinkleCam Pro has been recognized so I chose it as my webcam and clicked the Preview button. An image of what my webcam was "seeing" has appeared. I was thrilled that there is no stupid grahpics and skin selection like WebcamXP has. I needed a simple application like this without stupid "features".
"Source" and "Format" buttons offered me access to webcam controls so I played with them a bit until I was satisfied with the image results. Next step was to click "Store settings". I could chose from 4 options (FTP, HTTP, external program, or local file). I chose HTTP option, filled all the values and clicked ok. The "Caption settings" button is a bit tricky, I had to read the Help system on how to setup text captions on the resulting webcam image. But fortunately the help is clear and easily to understand, so I filled in proper values for complete date and time and set it to center to bottom-left corner of the image.
I like the JPEG compression option so I can decrease the final size of image. Because my connection is slow, it comes handy. Last step was to check "Auto capture" setting and ta-da! The image has been uploaded to my website!!
I haven't posted detailed guide how to setup the webpage that refreshes the image on website or how to avoid proxy/firewall that blocks FTP/HTTP connections, I'll do it next time, I promise
You can download Dorgem at http://dorgem.sourceforge.net.
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Installation of Dorgem is straightforward and easy like any other application. After I launched Dorgem, my TwinkleCam Pro has been recognized so I chose it as my webcam and clicked the Preview button. An image of what my webcam was "seeing" has appeared. I was thrilled that there is no stupid grahpics and skin selection like WebcamXP has. I needed a simple application like this without stupid "features".
"Source" and "Format" buttons offered me access to webcam controls so I played with them a bit until I was satisfied with the image results. Next step was to click "Store settings". I could chose from 4 options (FTP, HTTP, external program, or local file). I chose HTTP option, filled all the values and clicked ok. The "Caption settings" button is a bit tricky, I had to read the Help system on how to setup text captions on the resulting webcam image. But fortunately the help is clear and easily to understand, so I filled in proper values for complete date and time and set it to center to bottom-left corner of the image.
I like the JPEG compression option so I can decrease the final size of image. Because my connection is slow, it comes handy. Last step was to check "Auto capture" setting and ta-da! The image has been uploaded to my website!!
I haven't posted detailed guide how to setup the webpage that refreshes the image on website or how to avoid proxy/firewall that blocks FTP/HTTP connections, I'll do it next time, I promise
-- Ghaan
