[spook-l] Progressive JPEG.

[Nathan Lutchansky]

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On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Jeff Bowden wrote:

> The term you are looking for is multi-part jpeg.   There is actually a 
> webcam server that supports it called camserv 
> <http://cserv.sourceforge.net/>.

Spook supports this in CVS.

> Alas, it does not work correctly with Internet Explorer because MS
> decided not to implement that particular RFC.

Actually, it's not a standard at all, so it would be more appropriate to 
say, "MS decided not to copy that proprietary Netscape feature."  :-)

I believe there are some Java and ActiveX applets that will display
multipart streams correctly in IE, but IMHO, if you're going to use a
plug-in, use QuickTime to display real video...

> I've used camserv before. It does offer some neat features although it's 
> got an unecessarily long latency and the code is not so pretty.

Any neat features you like from camserv that should be in Spook?  -Nathan
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