NetworkCam 1.6 build: 9205 released: 2007-04-19 Network Web Camera, displays jpg stream. Copyright (c) 2008 Canadian Mind Products. signed Java Applet. Download from http://mindprod.com/products1.html#NETWORKCAM ===> Free <=== Full source included. You may even include the source code, modified or unmodified in commercial programs that you write and distribute. May be used freely for any purpose but military. For more details on this restriction, see http://mindprod.com/roedy.html#NONMILITARY If you include any Canadian Mind Products code in your own applications, your app too must be labeled non-military use only. All Java jars and source code are included. ---- Prerequisites: This program runs under any OS, (e.g. Win2K/XP/Vista/OSX/Linux/Solaris/Vista64/AIX...) so long as you have <><> Java version 1.2 <><> or later installed. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html for details. ---- Installing on a PC: Download source and compiled class files to run on your own machine as an Applet. First install a recent Java JDK or JVM. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html. To install, extract the zip download with WinZip (or similar unzip utility) into any directory you please, often J:\ -- ticking off the "user folder names" option. ---- Installing on a MacIntosh: Use Safari to download source and compiled class files to run on your own machine as an Applet. Safari will automatically unpack the zip into ~/Downloads (version 10.5) [or on the Desktop (version 10.4 and earlier)]. First install a recent Java JDK or JVM. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html. You may optionally move the download tree to a permanent home. I don't have a MacIntosh, just a PC, so I can't test the programs for Mac compatibility. In theory they should work without problems, but in practice that does not always happen. If you have problems please, let me know, preferably with screenshots and complete verbatim error messages. ---- Rebuilding: The zip already contains the necessary class and jar files, so unless you modify the program, there is no need to recompile the source or rebuild the jar. Configure basedir="E:/" in rebuild.xml to the drive where your files are. Configure your certificate name with environment SET cert=mindprodcert2008dsa Configure your certificate password with environment SET jarsignerpassword=sesame Use ANT and rebuild.xml, not build.xml, to recompile and recreate the jar. ---- Use: Lets you a view video stream from web cameras that servers present as a series of still jpg images. It is different from the competition in that: 1. You can refresh the image at any time just by clicking the image. 2. After you click, it continues to refresh at a fast rate for a while, then reverts to a slower rate. This is all configurable. 3. Well-commented Java source is included so you can see how it works or add your own features. 4. It is optimised to work with multiple Applet instances page. You can view many streams at once. You might for example write HTML to simultaneously display many thumbnail streams then zoom in on one on a different web page. 5. For example, you could have NetworkCam display the outputs from many security cameras at once, and zoom in on the one that was showing suspicious activity. You can click at any time to force an instant update. You might cycle through a set of web pages, using the HTML timed redirect feature, to show you alternating banks of feeds. NetworkCam only deals with one feed at a time, but you may embed it many times on the same web page to display multiple feeds. 6. It comes in both signed and unsigned versions, so you can use it to view feeds on any server, even ones you do not control. 7. It refreshes properly even where the server, the net, the browser, Java or other software is caching old images. See the http://mindprod.com/webstarts/networkcammanual.html for details of use for details of use. In version 1.3 the jars are called networkcam.jar for signed and unsignednetworkcam.jar for unsigned. Also full Java source is included. Version History 1.4 just reorganised the pad directories. 1.6 2007-04-19 adds flip, mirror and rotate.