send pics over slow line?

[Richard Shaw]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Dave Stevens <geek at uniserve.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I'd like to send a lot of jpegs across a modest bandwidth line without using
> up a lot of its available capacity. The images are sequential snaps of a
> landscape where there is very little change from one frame to the next. I'd
> like ideally to send the first frame in each hour then subsequently send
> only the frame-to-frame diffs, which ought to be small.
>
> I'm sure this is a solved problem somewhere but I can't see it. Certainly
> zipping or gzipping don't work in any obvious way (or not obvious enough,
> anyway!) Suggestions?

I don't know how to get a diff, but as far as limiting your upload
speed, there's an easy solution.

If you use scp, just use the "-l" option to limit the upload speed.

Richard