Long time recordings to harddisk
Watch the thief!
... or a primitive tool for grabbing frames periodically.
Fancy hardware provided by employer ...
This picture is constantly updated by the grabber software every few seconds.
You access it as a jpeg file via NFS. But NFS caching algorithms do not expect
a moving target. So, if you get a corrupt image, or no image at all, please
try the reload button.
The images are periodically collected into AVI movies.
The most recent movie and
one,
two,
three,
four,
five
previous movies are kept in the filesystem. Older data is erased, because
disk space is a finite resource.
NFS is not the perfect transport medium for a live video stream, but if you
like it, use this command to poll the image:
/local/X11R5/bin/xv -poll /proj/i4ray/fridged/movie/f.jpg -drift -3 -23
The name f.jpg is a symbolic link to the latest jpeg file. The link to the new
file is moved over the current link just after the new image is completely
written. Thus the link is always present and always points to a valid jpeg
image. (At least if watched from faui40. NFS may get confused by this
strategy).