On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:18:36 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Many cities/special places, etc., have `live' webcams which allow > Internet users to see these places `live.' This is often achieved thanks > to hosting websites, etc. I'm here asking myself how I could, from a > device (not necessarily a traditional computer), send the webcam flux to > the Internet.
Well, IP cameras usually provide an embedded web server to distribute the flux directly or a facility (a client) to send the streaming to an online service. Standard (USB) webcams require a bit of manual tweaking. > Say that I can capture the flux, in a given format, this flux being > constituted by one image taken every x second(s) (where x << -> fluidity >>>). Then, how could I transmit it to the Internet? How do live webcam > generally work? I did not find anything on the Internet about this. If > one finds a pointer, I'm okay to read more. You can take a look into "camstream" or "webcam-server", both available for Lenny :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.08.15.19.50...@gmail.com