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    Question Grabbing a webcam image from a website

    I want to grab a series of images from a webcam running on a public website

    What I've got so far is:
    load the page into a webboresercontrol
    grab the whole screen and load into a picturebox
    save to file

    I do this every 10 seconds or so within a one hour time period

    This works fine on my work PC but on my laptop at home (vb installed) it crashes after about 5 minutes and on the desk PC (vb not installed - running app as an exe) it crashes after about 3 minutes

    Is there a better way of doing this?


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    Re: Grabbing a webcam image from a website

    How is the webcam image displayed on the website? Is it a single gif/jpeg file? Does the page auto-refresh?

    I'd personally try & ditch the web browser control completely and just download the image file from the server every x seconds or whatever.

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