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Matt Rock
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2007 02:49
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Does anyone know how to create a live-feed of a webcam that could be shown on a website? I'm hoping to put a live webcam feed on my website that could be used for meetings with people who don't live close enough to drive here (or fly here). For instance, there could be a webcam on myself and the others who are physically present at the meeting, and another cam on a dry-erase board (so we could quickly sketch stuff without us needing to eat up bandwidth sending files back and forth just to illustrate ideas). I know this can be done, I've seen a number of websites that have 24-hour webcams. But is this some server-side application, or some complicated coding thing? And also, approximately how much bandwidth would this eat up each month?


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RUCCUS
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2007 02:52
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Quote: "I've seen a number of websites that have 24-hour webcams"


Mhmm.... what have you been looking at?


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GatorHex
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2007 02:56 Edited at: 22nd Jul 2007 02:57
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Webcam on a web site is not fast enough for meetings. They take a still snapshot and ftp it to the webspace.

You will have to use something like MSN for live meeting cam broadcasts or save the avi/mpeg and upload that after the meeting has ended.

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2007 02:58
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Matt - all you wanna do, you can do with a client like Skype (including webcam stuff).

The best way to do what you want is to find a program which regularly saves the webcam image to a file like "matt.jpg" to a file on a webserver...

But seriously, Skype... There is a whiteboard app in that which my mate and I have used and its pretty good.

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Matt Rock
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2007 03:03 Edited at: 22nd Jul 2007 03:04
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Times Square
Ithaca NY Commons

There's another one for Mount St. Helens but it seems to be down . I love these streams, it's hilarious because I've been in both of these locations a number of times, and since I know there's a webcam at these places now, I always try to avoid being seen by them, lol.

Edit: Skype, I keep hearing about it but I still haven't seen it, I should go check that out, ty


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indi
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skype and a private isketch room would cover a whiteboard.

msn has all three, camera, text, voice plus it has a whiteboard.

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Posted: 22nd Jul 2007 05:15
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but its MSN... So you cant win them all

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Posted: 22nd Jul 2007 05:55
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Mac's iChat is very good for webcam meetings, ofc, you have to have a mac.
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If Skype allows multiple webcam connections, like in a chat room with for instance 4 users, then I say go with that. It would be the easy and free solution. No bandwidth usage or anything like that Matt.



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Matt Rock
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2007 21:49
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Yeah, I'm thinking Skype is the way to go. I'm especially digging the phone service. Has anyone here used the conference call on Skype? Does it decrease audio quality or any of that? I assume it doesn't but I figured I'd ask anyway just to be sure.

What I'm curious about though is this "buy skype credit" option... what service of theirs costs money to use? I don't want to end up finding out that I have long distance phone bills from Skype calling Texas, Ohio, and the UK . I have digital phone service from Time Warner Cable, which allows me to call anyone in the US, Canada, or Mexico with no long distance charges. The only reason I can't use it for these meetings is because one of our team members lives in the UK, and another lives in the Netherlands.

Hmm, it might be a crazy idea (or a stupid one), but maybe we could use Skype for tech support, lol. I'm sure Skype wouldn't mind since people would be signing up for their service to call us, but then our customers would get peaved because they need to download added stuff just to get their games working . Still, it would be pretty awesome, hehe. If I could afford to pay someone an hourly wage to sit around all day waiting for skype messages, this would be a pretty cool idea.


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