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Re: [PLUG] Video Stream "forwarder"??? (possibly off topic?)
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What about buffering the feed? Capture video for a certain amount of
time and only offer that to viewers? Do if for a few minutes at a
time. (Who is going to watch someone else's fish for more than a few
minutes anyway?!)
jazzman@exdomain.org wrote:
>Sorry to all if this is way off topic, but it's linux related so I wanted
>to ask here first. I just picked up a linksys wireless internet camera
>pretty cheap. I use it to keep an eye on my saltwater aquarium while i'm
>at work and what not. It's an amusing little toy that delivers video via a
>.asf stream. Linksys attached 2 limitations to this camera...
>1)You MUST be running IE 5.5 or higher AND windows to use the camera
>2) The Camera only supports 4 connections at a time.
>
>The first limitation was easy enough to overcome. The camera runs a linux
>variant (source code available from linksys with compilers!) and the httpd
>just streams from http://cameras_ip_address/img/video.asf. All you need to
>do is point to that address and off you go.
>
>The second limitation is more troubling... I have the video feed linked
>from my website, so every user who views the feed on my website counts as
>an active connection to the camera. Since you can only really view the
>camera from my website (without me opening a port to the camera on my
>router) I was hoping there was a way to have a constant connection from my
>server to the camera... just the one connection, and then all incoming
>connections could take the feed from the local "proxy/forwarder" which
>could handle as many connections as system resources allow... sort of like
>this:
> ->client
> /
> Camera ----> Forwarder -->client
> \
> ->client
>
>
>Does anyone know of a program to do this, or would i be on my own for
>writnig this? Anyone know anything about asf streams and what i'd need to
>do to make such a program? I know how to do network coding, it's what i do
>for a living more or less, but i'm not sure what kind of handling i'd have
>to do for an asf stream in terms of what happens when a client first
>connects...
>
>Any help/advice is much appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>Marc
>
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