m1ddy Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 Morning All, The science department have asked me to setup a webcam of some eggs hatching that streams on to our webpage. Does anyone know of the best way to do this? Is there any free software worth getting for this task. Its a logitech cam, not sure how old but seems decent enough quality. Thanks
Gatt Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 a Steaming Webcam Did it have a bit too much to drink Anyway. did a quick google and found this site.. http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum23/3851.htm which as a few links..
bizzel Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 Windows Media Encoder will do this for you and it gives you several bandwidth choices. Embedding the video as an object in the page should do the trick.
m1ddy Posted January 31, 2008 Author Posted January 31, 2008 Hi Guys, Thanks for all the replies. I tried DCAM and managed to get it uploading to our webpage via ftp but the image wouldnt display. It just had the red x in it. Looking at the file, the jpg was created but was always 0kb in size. I have just installed Media Encoder but am having a few probs figuring it out. I can't see how to get it on to a webpage. Any ideas? thanks
localzuk Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 How about Tincam? I've used it before, and find it to be brilliant. And it's only a tenner. http://www.tincam.com/
m1ddy Posted January 31, 2008 Author Posted January 31, 2008 It does seem like a nice little program. I got the trial version. It is connecting to the ftp site ok and uploading the webcam.html file. But when opening in IE the page is just blank. Whenever it tries to upload the file after the set refresh time it tries to connect and comes back with error "Socket Error #10038Socket Operation on non-socket" weird
m1ddy Posted January 31, 2008 Author Posted January 31, 2008 No one got any idea what could be causing this?
ricki Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 HI Have a look at this one http://www.abelcam.org/en/download I have used it in the past with a webcam to catch kids breaking machines. Richard
localzuk Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 It does seem like a nice little program. I got the trial version. It is connecting to the ftp site ok and uploading the webcam.html file. But when opening in IE the page is just blank. Whenever it tries to upload the file after the set refresh time it tries to connect and comes back with error "Socket Error #10038Socket Operation on non-socket" weird Are you trying to stream or do periodic photo uploads?
generalen Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 WebcamXp will do what you want, check here: http://www.webcamxp.com/ Not freeware! Or you could check out Webcampublisher at http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/WebCam/Webcam-Publisher.shtml Freeware
leeshellard Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 We are currently doing this in our science department. Uses Webcam XP http://www.babington.leicester.sch.uk/webcam/ http://webcam.babington.info If you would like any help on how we set this up please let me know
Joedetic Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 Windows Media Encoder is what I'd use for a live stream and it's easy enough to embed that into a webpage from what I remember. For a periodically updated image I can suggest Fwink having used it myself a few times. http://lundie.ca/fwink/ .
PyROm Posted January 31, 2008 Posted January 31, 2008 Hi, I used Dorgem http://dorgem.sourceforge.net/ a while ago, its a very simple program and is free.
SimpleSi Posted February 1, 2008 Posted February 1, 2008 Last year i used a simple thing called easywebcam (many others like it available) to do a "chick-cam" on a school web site. It just used to FTP an image every 15 secs from a webcam and I set the web page to auto-refresh every 10secs. Worked fine. AFAIK there's no way to get live video onto our CLEO hosted servers regards Simon PS The pupils loved it - when one of the chicks hatched at 8pm and word got out - 7 staff went into school to see them that night and the pupils were queued up outside school at 7am the next day.
m1ddy Posted February 5, 2008 Author Posted February 5, 2008 I am still having issues with this guys I am now giving webcamxp a whirl and am having the same problem. I can get it to upload a jpg to the ftp, but it wont open. It just says it is 0kb in size. This is driving me nuts and to say im getting pissed off is an understatement. Save me!
leeshellard Posted February 5, 2008 Posted February 5, 2008 I used webcam xp to generate html code and just cut and paste it into our site.
m1ddy Posted February 5, 2008 Author Posted February 5, 2008 Its giving me the following in the log.... FTP Thread Created... FTP Connect OK FTP Change Dir OK FTP Direct Transfer (1) Error FTP Operation finished, restarting timer... FTP Thread still alive (1 seconds old)... FTP Grabbing New Frames... It can communicate with the FTP fine as it is creating the filename on there. it just can't seem to send any data to that file. I have upload a jpg manually to the FTP to see if its a firewall problem, and that worked fine. Im stumped!
localzuk Posted February 5, 2008 Posted February 5, 2008 Its giving me the following in the log.... FTP Thread Created... FTP Connect OK FTP Change Dir OK FTP Direct Transfer (1) Error FTP Operation finished, restarting timer... FTP Thread still alive (1 seconds old)... FTP Grabbing New Frames... It can communicate with the FTP fine as it is creating the filename on there. it just can't seem to send any data to that file. I have upload a jpg manually to the FTP to see if its a firewall problem, and that worked fine. Im stumped! Are you going via a proxy for your ftp connection?
generalen Posted March 31, 2008 Posted March 31, 2008 Could it have something with the uploadmethod to do? Binary/ascii?
FN-GM Posted March 31, 2008 Posted March 31, 2008 you could give this a go USTREAM.TV Shows: Free LIVE VIDEO, Webcam & Video Chat Rooms, Streaming Broadcast, Stream Video Clips, Internet Radio Cams, Web News Events, Watch .TV
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