Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:47:24 -0400 From: Ian Lord <mailing-lists@msdi.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Streaming video real time Message-ID: <7.0.0.16.2.20060716201059.025e0af0@msdi.ca>
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At 19:53 2006-07-16, you wrote: >I have a need to stream video from my server room to wherever I am via the >web. Basically, I need to be able to see the temperature sensor in the >room when an alarm is indicated, and I need to be able to see what mode >the A/C is in. > >I have found some articles regarding streaming video, but nothing which >seemed to relate to streaming video realtime. > >I have a USB web cam, and Apache installed. And, I am running FBSD 5.3 on >the server. > >Any suggestions as to what I should look at would be greatly appreciated. I don't think streaming is really mandatory for this kind a setup... Just do a cron job every 1 minute (ajust if necessary) that will take a picture, and save it as jpg in the root of your website... Then just use a simple "meta refresh" in your web page so that it reloads itself every 1 minute...
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