[gopher] Gopher Live Stream Demonstration

[Iain R. Learmonth]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 06:29:00 -0700 (PDT)
Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:

> > > It looks like we'll have to dive into the GIF98a specs to figure out
> > > how animated GIFs work, as I've tried a bunch of things and none of
> > > them work.
> > 
> > I have set up ffmpeg capturing our MJPEG stream and outputing an animated
> > GIF over a TCP stream using inetd which pygopherd using a PYG thingy then
> > spits out as an animated GIF image when the right selector is used.
> > Theoretically, it should work.
> 
> Interesting idea. I'd like to see this when it gets live on the network.
> 

Haven't negotiated firewall rules for the Gopher server to access the webcam yet, but streaming animated GIF works over HTTP:

http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/~iain/gif.php

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Iain R. Learmonth <irl at sdf.org>