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Why is a webcam screen blank?

Capture screen to file or URL like a web cam?

  • I see a couple questions like this but they don't really answer my question, and many nights of Google searches haven't turned up any good solutions. Is there some software I can use to record my screen, either all windows on the desktop or a full screen application hopefully, and then save a JPG file periodically to a folder? Maybe a screen capture program that will automatically save images several times a minute? Or a web cam type software that would fulfill a similar purpose with images or video, but not require plugins such as Java or Flash? I can take the files that it generates and make my own Javascript enhanced HTML page that refreshes with the newest image, but if that feature is part of the package even better. I'm using Windows 7 currently, and the goal is to be able to view what my computer is up to remotely, from a simple web browser on another computer or on my smartphone.

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    I found several different programs that will do this after a few seconds of Google Search. My search criteria was automatic screen capture AutoScreenShot http://www.theuds.com/download/install_autoscreenshot.exe Fergo http://www.fergonez.net/index.php?lang=en&page=apps&pid=11

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Not free, but you can use SnagIt to perform a screen capture every [x] number of seconds/minutes/hours and have it automatically save to a certain file/folder.

quickcel

It seems like what you want to accomplish is the equivalent of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Network_Computing computing, or network remote control. It's pretty simple to set up a http://www.realvnc.com/products/free/4.1/winvnc.html on a desktop machine, and you can use a http://www.tightvnc.com/download.php to monitor that computer in a "view only" mode. VNC is a pretty standard network protocol, so you'll need to have the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_forwarding in place depending on where you want to view it from. This also necessitates that you have a VNC client on the computer you wish to view from. If this is not necessarily the case, it is possible to use a http://flashlight-vnc.sourceforge.net/ or http://www.realvnc.com/support/javavncviewer.html VNC client that is viewable in a browser; you could provide this either on http://danielwebb.us/software/vnc/ or as an HTTP service on the computer on which you are running the VNC server.

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