Streaming webcam?? Possible on Unix??

[Ann-Angelcom]

What's up guys! Thanks for taking the time to read my thread! Here's the question.

I am trying to upgrade my webcam chats for my sites to do streaming webcam shows. Right now they are using an ftp upload off of Webcam32, which uploads an image every second. It works people like it but it's choppy and slow and obviously can be better.

So.... How do I go about running a streaming webcam? What software is needed, my server is Unix based, what do they need to install if anything? How do you guys stream webcams live? What are my options?

Thank you guys in advance! I appreciate your help!

[wotanworks]

Check out the darwin streaming server.
There are a couple free packages out there as well.

[borked]

Darwin streaming server AFAIK, is for streaming video content, not streaming live feeds. Of course, it must be possible since Apple (who are curators of the DSS project) use it to stream their conference, but not sure it's out-of-the-box ready for it.

One of the best Open Source projects qhich can handle this is VideoLan

For a HOWTO to stream from a webcam with VideoLan, see http://howtos.linux.com/howtos/Video...encoding.shtml

I can do a paid install/config for you or a free walk-through if you know your way around a Linux box and are server-savvy
- icq 283914791

[Ann-Angelcom]

Oh thank you guys! You guys are awesome.Borked thanks man much appreciated. I will have my server tech look into it first, if they can't get it I will let you know. I may even ask you to install it But thank you for the reply!!