[dundee] cameras

[Daniel Lamb]

Andrew Clayton wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:13:07 +0100, Daniel Lamb wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> Just wondering if anyone has ever done this before, I am wanting to 
>> setup a live feed from a webcam to a website, the only problem is the 
>> camera will not be on a static ip and I wont be able to access the 
>> router(it is sitting on a pc which will be using a shared wireless 
>> connection), anyways anyone done this?
>>     
>
> Well I did used to work for a company called CamVista!
>
> IP camera or webcam?
>
> The simpler solution is not real-time feed, but maybe an image every
> few seconds.
>
> In any case, what you probably want to do is ftp the image
> from the camera (IP camera should be able to do this directly, at the
> Axis stuff could) to the website or you capture the image from your
> webcam then ftp it up to the website.
>
> In either case it doesn't matter if your IP is static or not. Then it's
> up to you how you expose the images, simple meta refresh to java
> applet hideousness.
>
>
> If you want a real-time feed then capturing the video from your webcam
> should be trivial, you'd then want to put that up to a server for
> distribution. Maybe look at Flumotion, http://www.flumotion.net/
>
> I have done something like with with my N800. The video/audio stream
> was sent directly to a machine running VLC, which could then be
> broadcast on the network.
>  
>
> Andrew
>
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>   
Very interesting, it will be with webcams, I have looked at various 
opensource software and i can do the image easily but cant get a feed to 
a server, I did try with vlc as well and it works locally but can not 
get it to work remotely,(sending it via udp to the base ip address then 
port forwarding to the pc with vlc to pick up the feed.

regards,
Daniel