video viewing program?

Nathan · Post by **Nathan** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 11:35 pm

does anyone know of a good program for continuous video streaming?
kinda like a security camera
something that i view on my computer and doesnt upload to the internet

Anthony · Post by **Anthony** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 8:32 am

Let me get this straight.

You want to have a webcam running and upload it to the internet...

I don't know of any programs that do this. I would look into Nullsoft though as I know that they have streaming video feeds, but I can't stream video on ShoutCast, so it may be a bit more complicated.

someKid · Post by **someKid** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 11:37 am

I know that they have them out there, I've seen quite a lot of them, some of the programs are even like motion activated that they'll email you if your camera sees some movement..

the problem is whether they work as well as they say they do and whether someone wants to spend the money on them..

fuuucckkers · Post by **fuuucckkers** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 12:34 pm

If you PayPal me some money.. I'll go out and buy one.
There's this little business down the road from me called Spy Electronics. They have all kinds of neat little toys in there.

Most of the people that go in there ...are adults trying to peep on their spouses / significant others. (most likely to see if their cheating or not).

Nathan · Post by **Nathan** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 2:30 pm

no, i dont want it to upload it to the internet
i want to view it on my computer, offline, and use vnc viewer to view it from other computers on my network
i know there are probably programs that let you view it some easier network way, but i dont know of any, and this is what i thought of first
and thanks wasted, but i dont use pay pal

MikeZed · Post by **MikeZed** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 2:46 pm

Basically you want to do what they did in American Pie?

Axilla · Post by **Axilla** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 3:40 pm

I believe XP has this built in...my friend used to have a 24 hour camera in his dorm room.

Timelessblur · Post by **Timelessblur** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 3:53 pm

I remeber reading something about this a while again. a trick to help out camara is to make them run off a "web server" Basicly as far as the computer is consered it just a web server but in relate it is no really broad casting to the web. This trick sped up the camra and reduced the processor load durmatily

Nathan · Post by **Nathan** » Sat Jan 10, 2004 2:09 pm

i want to make it easy on myself, what i have now is ulead video studio
that does what i want but the background bugs me, i want something that is just the window with the video, no crap around it

Plasma2002b · Post by **Plasma2002b** » Sun Jan 11, 2004 7:15 am

i believe what would suit your purpose very nicely would be something called ChillCam.

its what i use.

i run it and have it save a local jpg to my drive every 10 seconds.

you could do that or just leave it with a window of whats on the cam...... has a crapload of stuff in.... not jsut one or two things.

google it cause i dont remember the site off the top of my head.

and btw.... if you want it, i have the version that isnt a Trial version. ill give it to ya, but i dont wanna post it here cause everyone would downbload it off my server

sweeney · Post by **sweeney** » Sun Jan 11, 2004 9:53 pm

Actually, a friend of mine has a program that came with his webcam for the exact purpose of making sure no one is in your room. It runs a stream, but doesn't save unless there is enough motion in the view of the cam. You can set how much motion is too much, have it take pictures, or video as long as there is motion. Its great, I'll find out the name and post back here.

Nathan · Post by **Nathan** » Mon Jan 12, 2004 2:15 pm

and btw.... if you want it, i have the version that isnt a Trial version. ill give it to ya, but i dont wanna post it here cause everyone would downbload it off my server

thanks plasma, i'll talk ot you about it when i get home from school

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