[wellylug] Video / Webcam Streaming

[Chris Hodgetts]

where by a staff member, can type
> in eg: webcam and get the streaming video.

Where by a staff member can type in to a browser eg: webcam, and get the
streaming video...


On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 15:02, Chris Hodgetts wrote:
> Hey, 
> I want to stream our Wellington office over our Lan via a webpage, 
> Much like Citylinks' webcams. realtime live.
> 
> Now, heres the tricky part, I have one 24/7 box on my desk, and it's
> windows...  the other 8/5 is my laptop, which gets taken home. I have a
> webcam connected to the Windows box, and with the lan wanted to stream
> from a windows box to a linux server, where by a staff member, can type
> in eg: webcam and get the streaming video.
> 
> However I dont know how to do this..   I will probabally run some CGI
> script on the server to have the effect of streaming, and get the
> windows box to upload the image to that server every second, 
> 
> and my question after all that rambling, 
> 
> Does anyone know of a good / free Image Uploader app for windows, that
> can take a USB camera and upload less than every second to another
> machine, and anyone have a good / free cgi script that can take that
> image --  img.jpg for example, and display it and when a new one comes
> in change it?
> 
> Sorry for the long winded question...
> 
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