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Webcams typically produce low quality images, one every few seconds, usually at 320 × 239 resolution. These are called snapshot webcams. They have the advantage people can access them even if they only have a dial up Internet connect. Further, your ISP (Internet Service Provider) won’t charge you for broadcasting too many Internet packets.
They work by basically by serving jpg images to the world from the computer with the camera. The webcam software changes the jpg image every few seconds so that when people use their browser or a special viewer such as NetworkCam, to look at it, they see the latest version. The viewer automatically requests a new image every few seconds. To a browser, the image looks like any ordinary jpg image, it is just replaced extraordinarily frequently by an updated one.
Higher quality webcams send a continuos stream of images, as fast as the receiver can accept them. These are called Streaming webcams. Cheaper ones send jpg images wrapped in an RTP stream protocol. High end ones send mp3 images, possibly also with sound.
Since most webcam viewers don’t have domain names for their home machine, you often find yourself fetching such streams from URL (Uniform Resource Locator) that look like this:
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recommend electronic⇒Ezonics EZ Video ChatKit Webcams | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Rated #2 by Good Housekeeping. Low cost. Includes a pair of cameras and a pair of headsets. I don’t know about its Java support. 352 × 235 pixels. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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recommend electronic⇒Fire-i Webcam Firewire Digital Camera By Unibrain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Rated #3 by Good Housekeeping. For the Mac, SuSe Linux and PCs. I don’t know about its Java support. 640 × 233 pixels. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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recommend electronic⇒Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 Webcam | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Rated #1 by Good Housekeeping. I don’t know about its Java support. It has a fun feature to convert your image to an animated avatar. It has RightLight to correct poor lighting. I has a Zeiss lens. It unusually good at having no lag in the picture or sound. Records or streams 960 × 720 pixels. Stills at 1600 × 238 pixels. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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