Re: [gentoo-user] Webcamviewer (or such) ?

[Alan McKinnon]

On 25/04/2016 17:43, Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For watching different wildlife webcams of the internet for a longer
> period of time I am looking for something, which I tend to call
> "webcam viewer"...(Warning! Not-native-english-speaker ahead! ;)
>
> Normally one opens up firefox (or any other browser), enter the
> URL and get the interface of the webcam displayed...sometimer with
> more than one port to watch. The resolution of these streams are
> low most of the time...nonetheless I need a completey firefox and
> its memory footprint is not that of a child.
> Rendering a complex scene with blender in parallel let my PC with
> 8GB start swapping from time to time.
>
> I am looking for something, which displays one port/one stream of
> such an URL in a window sized according to the physical resolution
> of the stream, so I can pin it in one corne of my display without
> interfering with the rest and without killing my RAM.
>
> Or is this complete idea nonsense ? ;)
>
> What is the recommended application for such a task?
>
> Thank yo very much in advance for any help!
>
> Best regards,
> Meino
>
>
>

vlc and mplayer can usually be persuaded to play almost anything using
every imaginable URI out there. Very adaptable softwares :-)

Plus the added benefit of not having all that browser resource and
screenspace overhead


-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@×××××.com