[pseudoschizo]

i recently got my hands on a high resolution security camera. i have it going into a video-in on my capture card (which is irrelevent).

i have a program that snaps a picture and uploads it to the xbox every x amount of seconds.

what i need is a py script that displays that picture fullscreen, and refreshes it every x amount of seconds (variable that i could change) until i hit a button.

this would be greaty appreciated and i assume (completely unfoundedly) that it would be pretty easy to do. (i stopped programming after basic, sigh..)

thanks again to anyone who wants to take a go,

ben

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[solexalex]

before someone work on it, did you tryed to stream your security card on your network ? then you just have to launch a stream file :
securitycam.strm containing the url on your network to get the stream (i.e: http://192.168.0.3/)
stream your cam can be done with various software :
- vlc (videolan)
- windows media encoder (free from microsoft)
- ... possibly many others

if you don't want to do that, i may have a look... or if someone want to do it, you can start with my script : wakeup!.py which use threading to check every second current time and compare it with time to wake up...

[pseudoschizo]

ok, one thing i'm stuck on in vlan is how do i make the .strm file for xbmc to load?

thanks,

psc

[solexalex]

i'm not very good with that...
try to simply put your pc lan ip adress with http

[pseudoschizo]

ok, i got the .strm file done, that seems to have been the easy part. i have become somewhat familliar with vlc, and am able to set the stream up fine. my problem now comes when i launch the strm, it hangs on the caching part. just sits there at 0.00%, whether i have caching turned on or not in vlc. i have tried multiple multiple things and am at somewhat of a loss.

now i know this isn't a vlc forum, but anyone have any ideas?

psc

[solexalex]

be sure to make compatible your codec on your pc (encoding) and your codec on xbmc (decoding)
this is only an idea, as i never tried that much...

[pseudoschizo]

hmm, yes i have tried every codec. oh well, i can keep playing with vlc, but as it stands now, i still sorta need that script.

thank you very much for the suggestions though,

ben

[pseudoschizo]

just a polite bump.

psc