Webcam on a LAN only?

Hiya

We’d like to have a webcam set up on a PC on the LAN, and have other people on the LAN able to view what the webcam sees. Ideally, this’d be streaming (ie, not a frame a minute). Our LAN has a Linux server, and winXP machines, using TCP/IP, and no special security requirements.

Would it just be a .htm page on the machine with the webcam connected, that we all bookmark in our web browsers, or something? Any ideas on the best way to do this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

abby

This probably doesn’t help, but I use (parts of ) webcamd on my linux server. It has support for a wide range of cameras, and is fairly customisable (good), but doesn’t have streaming support AFAIK, and I had to do some work 'cause it locked up every now and again. (bad).

webcamd is a daemon set up to serve static photos off some other port, which end up embedded in a web page using some javascript. I ended up just using the image capture bit of it, combined with a meta refresh, which is basically how most webcam pages work. I don’t know of any package that streams, but based on all this spam I’m getting, it’s gotta be possible. :wink: