Hi Danny, Naturally ImageMagick can be used to shrink your images and strip out non-essential information. But first may I suggest that your solution seems to be a little more complicated then I would of done. Wouldn't an IP Camera be a better choice? Most if not all IP cameras have a web interface that you can log into and view the live feeds, no uploading, no capturing every 10 seconds, no FTP, no linux or XP box, etc.
Anyways, you can always run the images through ImageMagick and shrink them to say 1024x768 (use the -geometry or -thumbnail), which should be more than adequate for the web and strip out image meta data using the -strip command. Naturally, all the information you need is available here: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php Cheers, Matt -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Danny Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 11:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [magick-users] jpg resize Hi guys, I am setting up a webcam for a nursery school whereby the parents can log onto the website and have live feed (pics) of there children throughout the day (if you are a parent you will understand :) ). I have a Sony Handycam plugged into a kworld tv/capture card, on Windows XP SP/2. That is not a problem (for now) as the capture card is taking pics every 10 seconds and storing it on a samba share that runs Debian 5.04. These pics are then send via ftp to the website. Now, my problem is that each pic is greater than 500k, which means that I have a bottleneck. Is there a way to send these pics to imagemagick to cut down on their size before I ftp them? Thanks Danny _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users
