NAME

     webcamd - image server daemon

SYNOPSIS

     webcamd  [portnumber]

DESCRIPTION

     webcamd runs on a machine with a bt848 frame  grabber  card.
     It  opens the device /dev/bttv and listens on a socket. When
     a client connects the images read  from  the  frame  grabber
     card are sent to the client program as fast as possible.

     The integer constant  MAX_PEERS  determines  the  number  of
     clients  who  can  get images simultaneously. Currently this
     number is set to 4 in the source code.

OPTIONS

     There is only one optional  argument  specifying  the  port-
     number  where  the server has to listen for client requests.
     If no argument is given or the argument isn't a number  web-
     camd  trys to find out the portnumber itself by calling get-
     servbyname(). The string used for this call is "webcamd" and
     is also a compile time default.

ENVIRONMENT

     No environment variables are used

SEE ALSO

     webcap(1) webjpeg(1)  socket(2)  listen(2)  connect(2)  get-
     servbyname(2)

BUGS

     The image size is fixed to 160x120 with 8  bits  per  color.
     The colors are allocated within a 9x5x5 Green/Red/Blue color
     cube. The client programs webjpeg and webcap are  also  com-
     piled to use the same image size.

AUTHOR

     Thomas  Pantzer,   pantec@aix520.informatik.uni-leipzig.de,
     1997