Webcam Stills

How can i get a still from a Webcam?

[Mr_Brutal]

Hi, i think this can go in the Graphics forums!

I have a webcam running on my Intranet site and i have seen at least once on other sites an option for surfers to 'save' a particular shot and add it to a gallery with a caption.

Would this be a specific webcam software function or something i can code into the web page.

Any advice would be appreciated?

[dmorison]

This wouldn't need any particular software on the part of your webcam.

With the usual webcam setup, a background process is simply updating an image file with the latest picture.

All your "snapshot" code has to do is copy the latest picture and save it to a different file.

Would be pretty straight forward with any server side scripting language.