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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...