[Cialug] Streaming USB webcam video

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Tom Sellers <tomsellers2001 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Is Flumotion strickly a Linux based tool?  My camera is connected
> currently to a Windows machine.
>

In theory you could probably get it to run on Windows since all of the
components it's built upon (Python, Twisted, GStreamer) have Windows
versions, but I doubt that it's tested and probably not that easy to get
running.  I'd recommend putting a Linux image on a USB stick and booting
the machine with the camera connected to it off of that to give Flumotion a
try.  You'll want to use as large a USB stick as you can so that you can
install Flumotion and related files.  Here's some tips to getting it going
with Fedora, others have posted some tips on using Ubuntu recently.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB

  *From:* Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us>
> *To:* Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 22, 2011 11:06 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Cialug] Streaming USB webcam video
>
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Tom Sellers <tomsellers2001 at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
> Has anyone streamed video from a USB connected webcam so that you can see
> that webcam video from anywhere on the internet?  I have tried a couple of
> different programs but neither seems to work as I expected.  I tried a
> product called TinCam and the other I forgot the name. Maybe someone can
> save me some time and agrivation by pointing me in the right direction.
>
> I would perfer to have a IP connected cam but don't have one.  Don't know
> if that would make any difference.
>
>
> I've been using Flumotion to stream a video feed of DMACC's wind turbine
> very successfully:
>
> http://streaming.dmacc.edu/wind-turbine/
> http://streaming.dmacc.edu:8800/wind-turbine/video.webm
>
> I'm pulling the video from a Axis network camera, but works just as well
> as with a USB webcam (assuming the kernel has good support for your webcam).
>
> If you need a flash applet for playback I recommend Flowplayer:
>
> http://flowplayer.org
>
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> Jeff Ollie
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