FW: [wellylug] Video / Webcam Streaming

[Chris Hodgetts]

Hey thanks for all that, 

I managed to get a piece of software called Webcam32 for the windows
box, and it uploads to mmy linux server , via FTP and then have apache
set up with a php script to refresh evey second.

We also have  some dodgy, not too good, security cameras at work, around
the building, which I found has webcasting, so have them in as well, all
uploading 1 frame a second to the FTP server :)

The security cameras are not avilable externally, but have the "office"
camera external, but wanting to think of another good view that I can
use, 

Again thanks for all the help on that one

On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 08:26, Klenner, Colin wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> I am send this response direct to you from a friend of mine who has
> something similar set up - although on XP.
> 
> If you want to contact Mike I can put you in touch.
> 
> Regards
> Colin Klenner 021 1099 834
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ruane, Mike (NZ) 
> 
> Hi Colin
> 
> I just used IIS on my Windows XP box to serve up the image which was linked
> to from the main page on my ISP providers web site. So, the main webcam page
> was located on the Nucleus web server host and it contains a link to the
> picture which is located on my personal machine. Everytime anyone looks at
> the main webcam page, it loads from the Nucleus server and fetches the
> latest picture from my local machine. That picture is replaced every few
> seconds by the webcam software.
> 
> Basically all he needs is a webcam and one piece of software. I have used a
> number of programs, some of which provide their own built-in web server.
> About the easiest I found was WebCamXP (www.webcamxp.com) which support up
> to 5 camera's and costs about $US40. Also the software that comes with any
> Logitech webcam also includes stuff to setup the camera as a webcam. If he
> uses a Logitech, download v8.1.1 of Quickcam. You could also look at
> CoffeeCup Webcam 3.5 see www.coffeecup.com/webcam/, which also has some
> interesting streaming features. It builds the HTML page for you. I have also
> used HomeWatcher which was OK. 
> 
> In summary, he needs IIS running on his Windows XP machine, he can either
> serve the page from that machine or from any other machine he likes and
> include a link on that HTML page to a picture that he stores on his local
> machine. When that web page loads it will ask for the picture from the URL
> that you have specified and effectively IIS will deliver that picture from
> the local machine on demand.
> 
> Cheers Mike
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Klenner, Colin 
> To: Ruane, Mike (NZ)
> 
> Hey Mike,
> How did you set up your home server to expose images to the internet? Seems
> like this guy wants something similar.
> 
> What do you suggest?
> Colin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz
> [mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz] On Behalf Of Chris Hodgetts
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 3:02 PM
> To: WellyLUG
> Subject: [wellylug] Video / Webcam Streaming
> 
> 
> 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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