Daily Movies - Is one hour segments the only option?

[Ruyton]

In preferences I have 'Create Daily Movies' and 'Keep Daily movies for 7 Days' ticked.  I don't fully understand why movies are only saved in one hour segments.

I did a forum search and there is discussion regarding joining the movies and/or playing them all together to show the whole day, but nothing about creating just one movie.

I use SecuritySpy and that does time lapse movies for the whole day and you can also set a schedule so that recording only takes place during daylight hours.

Am I missing something here, as I don't really see the use of a one-hour time lapse movie which has a playback duration of about 1 second.

[elagache]

Dear Gary and WeatherCat movie fans,

In preferences I have 'Create Daily Movies' and 'Keep Daily movies for 7 Days' ticked.  I don't fully understand why movies are only saved in one hour segments.

You are correct, you can only get movies that capture the previous hour.  I had looked into ways of trying to automatically splice the films together using some sort of utiity, but I never found anything that looked reasonable.

You can get the 24 hour video if you upload your webcam data to Weather Underground.  That's how I was doing it on my website, but it seems the URL has changed so it isn't displaying correctly at the moment on my website.  Weather Underground does appear to have a new link to do this if you check on the website associated with your station.

I suppose the 1 hour length is a legacy of the days when Internet speeds were much slower.  This sounds like a good feature request for a future version of WeatherCat.

Cheers, Edouard

[Ruyton]

Edouard,

Many thanks for the reply, all understood.  It's not a major issue but certainly would be a 'nice to have' on a future version of WeatherCat.  I'm not too worried about uploading movies to the web, but just to view them locally.

I do upload my webcam captures to Weather Underground by FTP using WeatherCat, but I don't see any option to view these as a time lapse movie.

http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=ISHROPSH19

[elagache]

Dear Gary and WeatherCat weather video fans,

I do upload my webcam captures to Weather Underground by FTP using WeatherCat, but I don't see any option to view these as a time lapse movie.

I had to do a little digging but here is the webpage of your webcam:

http://www.wunderground.com/webcams/Ruyton/2/video.html?month=02&year=2015&filename=current.mp4

To embed the video the provide the following HTML:

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<div style="text-align:center"><object width="640" height="480" id="undefined" name="undefined" data="http://icons.wunderground.com/swf/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.8.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="movie" value="http://icons.wunderground.com/swf/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.8.swf" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="flashvars" value='config={"key":"#@8d339434b223613a374","clip":{"autoPlay":false,"autoBuffering":true},"playlist":[{"url":"http://icons.wunderground.com/webcamramdisk/r/u/Ruyton/2/current.jpg?e%3D1423764191","autoPlay":false,"autoBuffering":true},{"url":"http://icons.wunderground.com/webcamcurrent/r/u/Ruyton/2/current.mp4?e%3D1423764191","autoPlay":false,"autoBuffering":true}],"plugins":{"controls":{"all":true,"mute":true,"play":true}}}' /></object><p><a href="http://www.wunderground.com/webcams/Ruyton/2/video.html">Ruyton's Video Archive</a> &mdash; <a href="http://www.wunderground.com/webcams/">Weather Underground Webcams</a></p></div>
Hope this helps.

Cheers, Edouard

[Ruyton]

Many thanks Edouard, you did well to find that page, I still can't see any links to it from the main page