Re: Viewing a web cam from my PPC HP4150

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

From: Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] (neil_at_nospam.com)
Date: 11/12/04 

Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 12:24:48 GMT

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:21:36 -0000, "Kimball K Kinnison"
<nospam.please@yahoo.com> wrote:

>"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@nospam.com> wrote in message
>news:0249p0l2h406ccd81cl8r80m6ihc3fug5q@4ax.com...
>> Not really necessary to run Java on the PPC : As long as thw web cam
>> creates a web page with a standard image type (JPEG, GIF etc) it'll be
>> fine.
>>
>> The webcam software normally makes a web page with a `refresh`, so as
>> the page updates every minute (lets say) it grabs a new copy of the
>> image from whatever PC is sending the image, evey time it reloads.
>>
>> The only place you may need Java is in the software which generates
>> the image. But that'll be on the PC ;-)
>>
>> Cheers - Neil
>>
>> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 23:39:20 -0600, "Joel H Villanueva"
>> <joelhvillanueva@prodigy.net.mx> wrote:
>>
>>>I have a web cam installed at my factory so I can overview production
>>>online
>>>from my home PC. Is it possible to view the web cam from my PPC?
>>>
>>>I believe I need java tu run my web cam application.
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance
>>>
>>>Joel
>>>
>>
>
>Who would you go about viewing a streaming video image on a PPC?

Your definition of streaming and mine might differ. It's not going to
be an image if it 'streams', rather it will be video.

In that case you need to define the format of the video you're
producing and then we can suggest solutions ;-)

An example might be if you used windows media encoder on a webcam
attached to the PC. And you set it up to capture from the camera, or
even lets say on-screen content from a program window, once per
second.

This would create a stream which can be broadcast, and picked up by
any network attached PC or PPC.

You'd have to use windows media 8 or 9 video codec rather than the
screen capture codec for the PPC to read it. But it would work fine,
you'd point your PPC's media player to the IP address and port number
of the media encoder PC (the port is needed to identify the encoder
service, that's where it broadcasts from).

All you'd need to do then once it was running, is make sure the
firewall on the PC was open to the outside on that port number - Zone
alarm can do this (not too sure about the XP firewall).

HTH
Cheers - Neil

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Looping A Playlist With Files And Link REMOTELY Hosted
    ... different concept of streaming video, videocasting as we've come to know ... Sending media content from a 'blog entry' on a web server is ... from WME or VLC to windows media server ... Well live video uses the MMS protocol, ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player.web)
  • Re: video streaming
    ... I would guess no more than 2 or 3 users at any given time will be accessing video. ... "streaming" video is likely always going to be a proprietary codec; the other codecs are aimed at downloaders. ... To run windows media services 9 you need at least windows server 2003 ...
    (rec.video.production)
  • Re: Save As saves link to WMV instead of video file
    ... I am new to Windows Media Services 9.5. ... the ability to save the entire video to their hard disk for later viewing. ... playlist link, and if the video is streaming in WMP, the File> "Save As" ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsmedia.server)
  • Re: windows encoder - cant get it goin
    ... I'm trying to set up a webcam streaming outbound using Windows Media ... except the port # which I ... You're not meant to browse to those in internet explorer. ... sending a web page, it's sending video data. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsmedia.encoder)
  • Re: Streaming client
    ... video streaming client. ... video to port 8100 of the XP machine. ... Port 8100 would be the port number on the Linux machine, ...
    (rec.video.desktop)