10. Local time stamp added.
Whether your Cam's image includes a time stamp or not, visitors will appreciate having a time stamp in their own time zone, in agreement with their computer's clock, to accompany each image they see, as well as the time of the next scheduled refresh.
9. It's FAST!
The Web Cam Recorder takes advantage of the JavaScript programming language that is built into most newer browsers to provide the viewers of your Web Cam an unprecedented level of interactivity, responsiveness, and entertainment.
8. Seamless image transitions.
The Web Cam Recorder's client-side image swapping is nearly instantaneous, allowing tiny, formerly-unnoticed, frame-to-frame differences to come to life!
7. No Web Cam is complete without it!
No matter how fancy your server-side software gets, without client-side software, you're missing out on at least 1/2 the fun available to those who've tapped the power built into modern browsers. WCR uses the JavaScript language built into all Netscape v3 and v4(-compatible) browsers to harness the powerful capabilities of the client side of the client-server relationship.
In other words, as of now, serving the images to the visitor's browser means the job is only 1/2 done! This is the client-side software you've been waiting for!!
6. It's so much FUN!
What's more, the more time a visitor spends watching your WebCam using The Web Cam Recorder, the more valuable the visit becomes, as the visitor's number of cached frames grows. WCR can even acquire images at a preset interval while replaying in an endless loop all previously-acquired images, all done efficiently and responsively on the client site.
So once the image has been pumped through the visitor's modem, the job's not over; the fun's just beginning, free of modem bandwidth constraints!
5. Document HAS data!
Some WC servers can serve a null document if a visitor happens to reload/refresh as the file is being freshened on the server. If ever The Web Cam Recorder fails to receive a requested image, WCR's "watchdog" will, after about a minute, issue a follow-up Refresh command. The visitor will experience a delay, but will never see a broken-image icon.
4. Makes virutally any Web Cam INTERACTIVE!
Once a visitor has spent some time Recording your Web Cam images, s/he can re-play them
in sequence, using variable-speed playback or frame-by-frame advance/reverse controls.
Your Web Cam is suddenly animated, with real-time user control. The Web Cam Recorder is what you need to make your Web Cam come alive.
3. Works with most clients.
Netscape Navigator version 3(.04 is current) was released in late 1996, and runs on a multitude of platforms. WCR works with Netscape Navigator version 3.04 Gold, as well as the newer, larger, slower, more resource-intensive version 4 browsers. No plug-ins required!
The point is that WCR requires no more from the user than one of the free modern browsers that are freely available. The Web Cam Recorder
consumes absolute minimal client resources, using efficient JavaScript programming techniques, which allow indexing of already-cached images by the interactive client-side program.
2. Works with nearly all servers.
As long as your server serves cache-able images from the same file name every time, it's compatible with The Web Cam Recorder. No changes should be required to your finely-balanced hardware/software/server configurations. You can test it right now by supplying the URL
of your site's image file after selecting "User-supplied URL" in The Web Cam Recorder's top list box!
1. It's affordable.
Pricing varies from free to $50/cam, depending upon usage. See licensing provisions.
Valuable features include:
- Automatic retries for unfulfilled requests of server for good image.
- Variable-frame-rate playback.
- Selectable continuous-loop playback.
- Multi-threaded design permits Recording while Playing, and vice-versa!
- Single-frame advance/reverse buttons.
- Begin/End sequence buttons.
- Graphical indication of each frame's position in the recorded sequence.
- Stop/Play 'soft' button.
- Fast-Forward 'soft' button during Play.
- Begin Playing from any frame in the sequence.
- Instantaneous interactive indication of status of image time (local), Playback speed, Refresh interval, Recording status, and time (local) of next programmed refresh while Recording.
- The Web Cam Recorder is highly (fully) customizable, in terms of size,
appearance, and function. Email us with your special requirements; we can harness the
power of The Web Cam Recorder to meet your needs.
- The most cost-effective addition to any Web Cam Site.
Right now, I want to make WCR freely available. If The Web Cam Recorder is used
in any way commercially, whether to help promote corporations who run free Cams, or by individuals who charge subscriptions to their Cams, or in or by any other profitable endeavor,
including the sale of ad banners, I expect to be compensated for its use. To replicate my
work for what I'm asking would require an expert programmer working for minimum-wage.
You may charge someone for your customization of The Web Cam Recorder to meet their needs,
provided the Copyright notices in the program remain intact, and that your customer's site's
implementation of the resulting customized WCR adheres to the terms of the license, regarding display of copyright notice and linking WCR animated banner and other, including possible financial, requirements.
