Fw: IP Cams - do they stream ?

[Gareth Cook <g@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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G.

Gareth Cook
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Gareth Cook wrote:

>A friend of mine is getting married - and he's asked if I can setup
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>webcam for some family members abroad who cannot come. The venue has
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>Anyone here have an IP camera that supports realtime streaming -
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>than just a jpg every x seconds or so ? Wasnt sure if this was
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You need an mpeg based camera rather than just a  motion jpeg one, bit=20
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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