Webcam 'Live' streaming - How?

[mattd2k]

I have just bought my first webcam so that while my family and I are living in Florida we can video chat with our family back in the UK via MSN Messenger.

So far this has been successful and I would now like to try and take things one step further. I have some personal web space through my ISP and would like to be able to setup a page so that I can stream live webcam images to my family on Christmas morning.

I have managed to set up a few pages using the ISP's click and play set-up facility but I have no idea how to go about streaming the webcam. Any advice on how I can do this would be much appreciated.

Matt

[BRL]

Hi Matt. You will need to download some 'Webcam Streaming Software'. Google for it and see what comes up. Lots of free ones about and some you pay for.

Good luck.

[221B]

I have used Yawcam (http://www.yawcam.com/) with some success - it is free and fairly straightforward to setup.

It is easier to set up if you have a direct internet connection, rather than through a router, and streams direct from your PC which acts as a webserver, so you don't need your ISP webspace, although you would be able to link to it from your site.

Streaming will require a reasonably fast (broadband) uplink, but as you have been using Messenger I assume that you have sufficient bandwidth.

Another one I have used in the past is VisionGS (http://www.visiongs.com/) which does stream via an applet on your ISP website, but I think that you now have to pay for the streaming version.