Hi
I was using trillions of CPU cicles to finally come up with time lapse
video in good quality, pictures of several cams united in one video
stream.
When I say stream I think of something like the gulf stream, as
six webcams combined in a time lapse make up much more bandwidth
than my internet connection can handle - sometimes it even tops the
Super Video CD specs
I used to compile the mpegs using convert from the ImageMagick packet to
add text and scale the pics, and mpeg_encode to create a mpeg1 stream (all
on linux).
Now I use gimp controlled by perlgimp to create the pictures and transcode/ffmpeg to
create a the mpeg4 stream. This process allows more flexible alignment of
pictures and fonts (on linux as well, of course).
you can find 3 screenshots here:
http://www.webtruck.org/history/History2003?
I plan to make clips with the most amazing sequences, like the office
move back in november, Unimog driving scenes
If I have the time, this will be WebTruckDVD II :-)
( http://www.webtruck.org/history/2002/dvd? )
Maybe I'll put some of the clips online in lower quality.
Transition from the old webserver to the new one is completed, no more
content is served from the old machine, all pictures and streams are
generated and stored on the new machine(s).
webtruck.org now consists of 3 main computers
and 4 auxiliary computers for cameras, sound
and remote control
Behind the scene still similar to the situation
back in january 2001
http://www.webtruck.org/history/2001/january/schema.gif/view?
but
with all computers replaced
minus CyberMaster
plus TrackCam, OfficeCam, Unimog, Zope application Server :-)
we had some nice and warm days - soon you'll see leafs on the trees out
there - people were popping up around lunch time
WebTruck
PS: my favourite page on webtruck is:
http://www.webtruck.org/usemap/users_html?