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Page to serve timelapse videos
« on: November 24, 2015, 04:45:21 PM »
I'd like to add a new page to my weather website that would allow visitors to select and view the video timelapses I make daily from my weather cameras.

I currently have 6 cameras that I used to produce a daily timelapses.  I use a Raspberry Pi to grab the images once per minute from each camera, and at the end of the day the Pi uses a cron job to create a timelapse avi file for each camera.  Each file is named something like "CamName_Day_Month_Year.avi", and then stored on my central storage server.   My website is hosted on my own webserver, so I don't need to do any FTPing of files.

What I'd like is to have a simple webpage where a visitor could choose a camera (Via a button, or a dropdown), then choose a date (via a calendar, or choosing the day/month/year), and it would serve up the timelapse from that camera/date.

I am far from being a coder, but when I look at code already constructed, I can generally understand what is going on.   If someone might be able to point me to a website or some code that sort of does what I am thinking, then maybe I can get a general idea on how I could construct such a page.

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