Webcam broadcasting

[Bosec]

I got a question for a customer and would like some advice. He has a Logitech 9000 webcam and his idea is to turn it into a glorified babycam. He has a laptop/computer in almost everyroom and also would like to check it on his iphone. Would anyone suggest what software would broadcast or stream so he could put in the ip of the computer and see the stream? His idea is to open something like media player and the play the stream. I believe this can be done over the network and am currently researching this but the iphone is putting a kink in the situation.

He has windows xp pro on all machines and even has a windows server 2003 machine if this info helps.

 

[Rider]

OK, this reply isn't going to be very popular but...

It seems to me he could simply use some sort of Messenger with web cam. MS Messenger, yahoo,...

Not really an "IT" solution but a quick and simple one.

 

[Bosec]

Is there an auto answer on the webcam side?

 

[angry_geek]

Try windows media encoder http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/encoder/default.mspx

 

[Rider]

Is there an auto answer on the webcam side?

It's been a long time since I've used Yahoo or MS Messenger. Going off of memory, what I would do is create a Yahoo user for the Baby Cam room. Create users for however many computers or phones he wants. Add all of those viewers to the Baby Cam user's freinds list. Make the Baby Cam user invisible or private so you don't have the whole world watching your Baby. Then I believe you can go into the user preferences and select something like "always allow my friends to view my cam" and something like "ignore all others"

I would then just always leave the Baby cam always on and the Baby Cam user always logged on (invisible or private of course).

I'm not sure about the iphone part. I'm sure "there's an app for that"

Hope this helps.

 

[Midnite]

There is may softwares that allow you to do this ... I am not sure of thier names but webcamxp will do this as will h264webcam ... look them up on google

Midnite

 

[reesk92]

the best answer i can provide is that you use ustream.com to create a web broadcast of it you can set the stream to private or public and they also have a iphone app so you can use that too its easy to set up use a pc in the babys room torecord and broadcast onto the internet and then watch the baby on the other pcs through the ustream site or paste a link on to your blog or something

this is the easiest setup i know of

 

[lawson_jl]

The Ustream idea would help also if the user didn't have a static ip as well. I think i'm gonna do that thanks for the suggestion.

 

[Bosec]

The media encoder worked well and have all his computers hooked up and broadcasting i figured i was all done until i hit the snag of the iphone. I know these maybe a off question and I am not a iphone expert. Anyone know of an iphone app a that would allow him to see this broadcast thru media encoder.

Btw when researching the media encoder i ran across this article that assisted me thank you all again.

http://blog.abettergeek.com/software/windows/setup-a-webcam-stream-in-ten-minutes/

Might try the yahoo thing if need be thanks for the suggestion also

The ustream looks perfect but we started getting huge staggering for a while not sure why only thing i can think was all the computers watching but it was great to see a password protection. He really liked it too we might explore that more when he saw the password availibility he had more ideas for the grandparents to watch also.

I think i got into a mess. I love it when customers come up with more ideas before done.

 

[reesk92]

ustream has a 4 second delay becasue of the encoding.
and the feed is being pushed out to the internet and downloaded again.

 

[Midnite]

PC camera streaming

I am trying to do something similar and need a program that will allow you to access a camera card and then broadcast that video input from 2 seperate cameras connected to the card on a website for STREAMING ... any clue ? anything that can do this ?

Please advise ?

Thanks;
Midnite

 

[Jager]

WebCamXP

You can do just about anything with it....DVR, Motion detection, audio detection, etc. It will broadcast on an IP (not too hard to use a DynamicDNS Service to keep it pointing at the right IP) with the Option of Flash, Java, and I think one other choice...Anything with a webbrowser that supports the offered encodings will work. I can attest to it working...tested by hooking up my MiniDV camcorder to my desktop and setup the app...was able to watch in on it...

 

[Emockler]

Isn't it better to get an ip camera with it's own webserver, fwd the ports thru your router and you can watch from anywhere. Mine has motion detection and forwards frames to an ftp or email when motion is detected. It has 2 axis control thru the web interface, and you can set permissions on all of the functions for different web users.