Best practices to stream a webcam on my website?

Discussion in 'Graphics & Multimedia' started by treeman22, May 4, 2009.

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    I've seriously spent over a few hours looking the internet for the best methods to stream webcam video on my website and couldn't locate clear methods or what people are using today in 2009.

    i have a linux dedicated server. Should i use the flash player and Flash Media Development Server 3.5?

    i'm not an expert, but should be able to get by with reasonable instructions.

    Would also love some insight on bandwidth, so i don't get a crazy bill at the end of the month. lol


    appreciate any feedback.. anyone that goes above and beyond will find free money in their paypal
     
    treeman22, May 4, 2009 IP
  2. treeman22

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    ps - extra brownie points for anyone that can let me know how i can track usage.. ga can track website interaction, but what about plays, pauses, return visits..etc
     
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    Flash Media Live Encoder can capture the video from a source of your choice and do the stream.
     
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    thanks for the responses so far.

    looking for more help on the server side and setting up things there with considerations for bandwidth, ease of setup, and security
     
    treeman22, May 10, 2009 IP
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    I think sites like ustream etc. makes it fairly easy.
    But regardless of how you stream it you should check out a program like camtwist, (or webcam pro I think is a good one as well) to do live editing with your webcam image
     
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    hmnn.. looking for more server side stuff support..

    I tried installing vlc using yum and i'm missing the packages, anyone?
     
    treeman22, May 12, 2009 IP
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    try Flash Video MX SDK, server applications to convert the uploaded videos from virtually any format to Flash video (flv), Flash (swf), and aac/h.264 MP4! With it you can build a video website like that of YouTube, Google video, Yahoo! Video, etc. Convert video to FLV with command line in batch and on server-side.

    This program is also widely used in multimedia applications for video to flv, swf conversion under C/++, Visual Basic,
    I hope this may help you. :)
     
    jumpjump, May 14, 2009 IP