I'm trying to snapshot a webcam, once a minute maybe, and send the image to my FTP site.
I bought Tincam, and it's a mess. I tried using it to send the snaps directly to my FTP site, and it hung up. So I figured that I'd just ask it to save the image to a file, and I could ship it up to the FTP site myself. No dice: it insists that it's in FTP mode, so it's still broken. Uninstall/reinstall doesn't help. Piece-o-crap.
So, does anybody know of a way to capture a webcam image and save it to a file? Windows does that inherently, all I have to do is double-click on the camera icon, but it only saves when you manually click "save image". I wonder if there's a command-line way to invoke that.
Or does anybody know of webcam software that actually works? Again, I'd be happy with just saving image snaps to a folder; I can take over from there.
It seems like my life would be almost perfect except for software. Most of it is varying degrees of horrible.
John