[olug] semi-OT: webcam for linux with local device

[Will Langford]

Yeah, I was gonna wait for a reply before posting discovered bits about
camserv :).

I've also been looking at possibly ffserver.

If the V4L api docs aren't too bad... i can see it being plausible to render
into a 5-10fps mpeg/xvid, then have something take that and create a virtual
V4L device that decodes that stream....  although, being webcam based, needs
to be highly fault tolerant... hmmm

Playing with camserv is prolly first choice :)

-Will


On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 1:40 PM, John Hobbs <john at velvetcache.org> wrote:

> Camserv [1,2] has a relay tool that might be what you are looking for.
>  Or you could grab your gcc and grow your own, the V4L api docs are
> pretty good ;-)
>
> - John Hobbs
>
> john at velvetcache.org
>
> [1] http://cserv.sourceforge.net/
> [2] http://svn.navi.cx/misc/trunk/camserv/README
>
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Will Langford <unfies at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm... looking to stream a webcam from home to a linux dedicated server
> in a
> > datacenter.  And I'm not looking for a once-a-second-jpg-update kind of
> > thing, either.  I want to stream from home (no particular OS in mind) to
> my
> > server and have it replicate the stream to any number of clients.
> >
> > I've had like, zero luck finding anything related.  Am I going to have to
> do
> > some evil hackery with netcat / hose-faucet or something to stream from a
> > device here over the net to the input of some other daemon on the server
> for
> > it to serve live stuff ?
> >
> > To do this correctly am I going to have to get an IP based cam / device
> and
> > some how transfer it to the dedicated server and have it cache it for
> > streaming to clients ?
> >
> > -Will
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