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I mucked around with USB webcams and MP about a year ago. I was going down the lines of having Picture in Picture which would allow for motion sensing and pop up when detected. Issue there is no ability to do PIP. The solution I cam up with was to build a process plugin that used the notfiy box and a little app that sent out a udp broadcast that the plugin would listen to. The plugin would then grab a static jpg from a defined location a presto. The issue there was that the picture was too small to have of value.
I then built a client app which was sizable and would overlay on top of MP. This would minimise back after a predifined time. In this case I used VLC to steam the webcam and the client used the vlc active x to display the video. Again the draw back here was that MP needed to be ontop all the time (for other reasons) and therefore, the client App never got the focus....

Just though I would add my 2 cents worth on what isseus I have come across. I have since stop playing with this idea as I have other projects and work on the go, but I may comeback to it one day if nothing has been done.

<blockquote data-quote="charli181" data-source="post: 413150" data-attributes="member: 54408">I mucked around with USB webcams and MP about a year ago. I was going down the lines of having Picture in Picture which would allow for motion sensing and pop up when detected. Issue there is no ability to do PIP. The solution I cam up with was to build a process plugin that used the notfiy box and a little app that sent out a udp broadcast that the plugin would listen to. The plugin would then grab a static jpg from a defined location a presto. The issue there was that the picture was too small to have of value.I then built a client app which was sizable and would overlay on top of MP. This would minimise back after a predifined time. In this case I used VLC to steam the webcam and the client used the vlc active x to display the video. Again the draw back here was that MP needed to be ontop all the time (for other reasons) and therefore, the client App never got the focus....Just though I would add my 2 cents worth on what isseus I have come across.&nbsp; I have since stop playing with this idea as I have other projects and work on the go, but I may comeback to it one day if nothing has been done.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="charli181, post: 413150, member: 54408"] I mucked around with USB webcams and MP about a year ago. I was going down the lines of having Picture in Picture which would allow for motion sensing and pop up when detected. Issue there is no ability to do PIP. The solution I cam up with was to build a process plugin that used the notfiy box and a little app that sent out a udp broadcast that the plugin would listen to. The plugin would then grab a static jpg from a defined location a presto. The issue there was that the picture was too small to have of value. I then built a client app which was sizable and would overlay on top of MP. This would minimise back after a predifined time. In this case I used VLC to steam the webcam and the client used the vlc active x to display the video. Again the draw back here was that MP needed to be ontop all the time (for other reasons) and therefore, the client App never got the focus.... Just though I would add my 2 cents worth on what isseus I have come across. I have since stop playing with this idea as I have other projects and work on the go, but I may comeback to it one day if nothing has been done. [/QUOTE]