1.1 What is WebVision?

WebVision is a viewer program for a fairly recent phenomenon on the World Wide Web - web cameras. Web cameras are recorded images published on the web and updated at regular intervals. They may show everything from a TV channel or somebody's living room to the weather in a city in northern Norway.

You can view these images with a regular webbrowser, you can even have it update the page at regular intervals, but WebVision offers a more specialized and optimized approach. Web camera sites are configured in a special window and viewing one opens a dedicated window, which is sized exactly to fit the camera image. Update delay, save directory and other parameters are easily configured individually for each camera.

For registered users, an Internet update server is available that allows you to exchange sites with other WebVision users. At the last count, this database contained over 250 webcams, with more being added all the time.

1.2 Requirements

• AmigaOS 3.0 or higher.

• A JPEG datatype like akJFIF or Prodev-JFIF.

• MUI 3.8 or higher.

• An AmiTCP compatible TCP/IP stack (like Genesis, Miami or TermiteTCP).

1.3 Features

• Highly multithreaded operation, busypointers are practically banned and all operations can be aborted.

• Many advanced configuration possibilities.

• Extremely flexible autosave function for saving camimages.

• Update the hierachical list of camsites automatically over the Internet.

• Carefully designed MUI GUI.

• Supports CyberGraphX Video Layers for 16 bit images on 8 bit screens.

• Supports many advanced HTTP features such as HTTP proxy (with authorization), streaming webcams, Basic authorization, downloading only updated images, etc.