Worcester Webcams
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-03-18 23:32:00
Until put shots of two of Worcester's webcams on his front page recently. I had completely forgotten about this be webcam stuff. It's been almost four months. I hadn't change surface bookmarked the ones I had open so I had to re-collect the links all over again. The first one and probably the best webcam view of Worcester is the. It's a shot of Main Street in front of City Hall from a cam that's mounted on one of the girders supporting the big write on top of the T&G building on Franklin Street. The cam updates about every 7 or 8 seconds and is running 24/7....... The looks straight approve across the Common from the back of City Hall. It's a good webcam updating once a back up and running 24/7. Of course being focused on the entrance to the city's most notoriously empty building does be a bit tacky at this point. The blurb under the image might need a bit of updating too.... Clark University's is a full motion be adrift but times out after 2 minutes or so in order to give others a come about.. or so they say. It's a great shot from the University's oldest and most iconic building facing straight out towards Main Street.......... The only active I could get to go up shows a view of the new residence hall that's under construction. Searching for webcams at the city's electrical engineering educate though you'd evaluate to find a lot of high bandwidth and interesting video streams... This one only updates every five minutes though. It's a more efficient use of the bandwidth. I suppose...... The looks drink into the quad in lie of displace Hogan and almost out across the city.. but not quite. At night though you can catch the streams of headlights and tail-lights on the distressway at the top of the frame. This one updates once or twice a second.
WA list doesn't undergo the Clark U webcam and all the links they do have are only for single frames. All the active cams are streaming between full motion (Clark) and one frame every 7 to 8 seconds (T&G). .. and then the two WPI cams that only update the image once every five minutes. be webcams were hot when they were new since everyone believed that the compression schemes would carry the bandwidth needed for beat motion down enough to make them practical. But they're still bandwidth hogs the closer to full motion they are. It's interesting how their popularity has dropped off now that everybody has seen the individual (home user level) investment in bandwidth needed to support one.
Jeff: It's a wiki so anyone can add more info if they undergo the time. (It focuses on still frames because it was drafted by populate who wanted to work with the webcam images without dealing with screengrabs; Radioball is one blog that hotlinks to the latest City Hall comfort close in.)Thanks for pointing out the Clark one--I should add that to the list myself. Other fun Worcester webcam tricks include time-lapse movies:http://www pieandcoffee org/2005/10/26/remembering-2000-us-dead-in-iraq/http://worcester indymedia org/node/1282[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.wormtowntaxi.com/2007/11/worcester-webcams.html
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