web cam streaming?

Davide Bianchi wrote:

 > On 2004-10-31, Eric <notValid DeleteThis @comcast.net> wrote:
  >> I was wondering, what do i need to stream live video
 >
 >
 > Most of the time a jscript or activex, if you use netscape, he can
 > get the stream without using anything, pity that for the rest netscape
 > sucks. In a pinch: it has nothing to do with apache.
 >
 > Davide
 >
What do you mean Netscape can get the stream? First it needs to be sent and
thats the part i dont see how to do.
Where can i find a jscript that will do this, i tried googling for something
but cant seem to find anything.
Thanks
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On 2004-10-31, Eric <notValid RemoveThis @comcast.net> wrote:
 > What do you mean Netscape can get the stream? First it needs to be sent and
 > thats the part i dont see how to do.

It came directly from the webcam.

 > Where can i find a jscript that will do this

Check the documentation and the software that came with your camera.

Davide

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Davide Bianchi wrote:

 > On 2004-10-31, Eric <notValid.TakeThisOut@comcast.net> wrote:
  >> What do you mean Netscape can get the stream? First it needs to be sent
  >> and thats the part i dont see how to do.
 >
 > It came directly from the webcam.
 >
  >> Where can i find a jscript that will do this
 >
 > Check the documentation and the software that came with your camera.
 >
 > Davide
 >
Netscape IE or any other browser cant just connect to a web cam except
in the case of some of these specialized cameras with built in web servers.
The web cam i am talking about is the 39$ thing you would buy at best buy or
some such place. These web cams come with software for windows not for
linux. The windows software they come with is usually a driver to allow
windows media player to show the live video, but even then it is not going
to be served to the internet. Some how you need to capture the image stream
coming out of the camera (or the driver) and feed it out from the server to
the world. Simply hooking up a web cam to a pc does nothing. Some kind of
software such as a java class or possibly a compiled program executing as
some kind of cgi needs to be grabbing the video from the camera or the
camera driver and sending it out a tcp or udp port (maybe 80 but i dont
know) so that users can point their browser at it and get live video at
some number of frames per second.
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