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Re: IP Cams - do they stream ?



Gareth Cook wrote:

>A friend of mine is getting married - and he's asked if I can setup a
>webcam for some family members abroad who cannot come. The venue has a
1Mb
>DSL link (so a 256k upstream) and we're looking to have just 2
connections
>to the camera.
>
>Anyone here have an IP camera that supports realtime streaming - rather
>than just a jpg every x seconds or so ? Wasnt sure if this was feasable
>with the IP cams.
>
>

You need an mpeg based camera rather than just a  motion jpeg one, bit
more expensive but readily available. A few different mpeg standards ...

http://www.axis.com/products/video/about_networkvideo/compression.htm

Axis do some nice ones and there are some very low cost units here...

http://www.digidave.co.uk*
http://tinyurl.com/cdfm4*

K





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