Computer webcam help

Hi,

I have an intell computer web cam, i wanted to make it so that it is always hooked up to my computer which i did, and i wanted it to like take a picture every 5 - 10 seconds when i am not their. And while it takes the pictures i wanted it to be burning them to a cd. Is this possible? Thanks



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[Uranium-235]

I woulden't think so, burning something to a CD, even a single picture would usually take longer then 10 seconds. You can store them to your hard drive, and burn them later if you wish though

[vee_ess]

You can use Webcam Timershot from the Microsoft PowerToys. You can set it to save directly into the temporary folder which stores files waiting to be written to a CD.

I, too, am not sure how you would write files to a CD as it takes the pictures. However, it wouldn't be efficient at all to write the files one at a time. You would be writing a file table each time and all the file tables (pretty much duplicated over and over again) would take up most of the space on a CD. 60 or 70 megs would be usable for pictures, max.

ok well still...burning them later would work but how can i set it, with a program or something, so it takes a picture every 10 seconds, and 235 are you talking when the camra takes the piture it takes longer than 10 seconds to save it, well i know the computer can have the image in about .55 secons, i timed it. Thanks for the help guys!

OMG..... sorry vee i just now saw the top of you replie thanks so much man

[Uranium-235]

what I ment is it would take longer then 10 seconds to burn a single file to a CD, not save it to your hard drive