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| Tutorials | The Software Snapshot - Streaming - Suppliers Most programs will allow you to send a webcam image to your webpage. It's not really hard to setup the traditional kind of webcam - the advanced features like streaming video take a little bit more work. A basic webcam is not more than a program like Webcam32 sending your cam picture to a server on the Internet - then your page displays that image. Simple right? The major software package for people running webcam websites is Webcam32 by SurveyorCorp. It works with almost every webcam on the market today and has a great set of features. You can run a webcam that updates every few minutes or a fast streaming video feed. The setup is best done by a person familiar with computers and an understanding of websites. There are some shareware programs available such as Spycam. These programs often lack the features of Webcam32 and aren't developed and supported as well. The
other option is a free webcam program from companies such as Inetcam,
Camarades, SpotLife, or WebcamNow. These programs are intended to
send your webcam images their websites. That way they get lots of
traffic on their slow websites because people come to see all the
webcams. This of course means you are giving up control and giving
them content for free. Several of these companies do give you a
java applet that will show your images on your own website. This
applet usually is awkward to configure and features advertising
and links that they profit from. I do not like these services.
But
if you do not have your own website, it could be usefull. The most easy, cheap and efficient way to start putting some life in your static web page and converting it to a true WebCam page. The snapshot software usually uses your Internet connection (even with a dial up account!) to upload via FTP (File Transfer Protocol) a single snapshot captured from the camera set up on your computer. This occurs each xx seconds (often 15, 30, 60,... seconds) and combined with the refreshing techniques (See webpages and HTML), allows any kind of Internet user (even that ones with a slow Internet connection) to view live images coming from your system at the time you decide to have the camera on. So, snapshot software is a fast and an easy-to-set-up solution for novice users, with few resource consumption, low motion but that allows to put some live in the web page you have. Here are some providers of snapshot software, if we miss any good software, e-mail us..
About Streaming video software.... If you plan to broadcast live video (with or without audio) through the Internet, you may want to first check your Internet resources: don't plan to put full video and audio support in your WebCam page unless you get a fast and high bandwith connection. If you plan to broadcast video and audio, you'll probably need a dedicated computer to host the video server (often implies a fixed IP address for that server) which will grab the video streams coming from the WebCam hardware and put them available to the rest of visitors of your page. So pay close attention to this, since putting this kind of broadcasted image also often implies to put available to your users some kind of plugin (third-party program to be downloaded aside from the Web browser) to view the video and listen to the audio simultaneously. If you just plan to put video (no audio) available in your page, you'll still need some bandwith for it and a fixed IP your users may connect to. Nowadays, there are some java applets that don't require the user to download and install any plugin: they just connect to the page the applet is and the applet gets in contact with the video streams coming from your system. If you have a dial up account to the Net, you'll probably have a dynamic IP address, that is, a changing IP, an IP address that changes every time you dial up your ISP number. There are some solutions to get a fixed domain with a dynamic IP address (so users can enter a DNS name that will take them to the current IP in your system) but since this would imply a non-24hour broadcast, it will soon bore your visitors. The last point is obvious: just be sure your WebCam hardware allows to capture video streams: recommended minimum frame rate is 10-12fps. You'll discover that to achieve such frame rate, you'll have to sacrifice image quality and size, so keep this in mind when choosing to broadcast video. As a summary, broadcasting video (with or without audio) is often used by big companies or individuals that have a good (and cheap!) connection to the Net (Cable, DSL, Frame Relay connections, for example). Broadcasting video requires a lot of bandwith, so if you don't have all the required resources for it (with a minimum set of quality, of course), you better plan to broadcast snapshots only. Here are some providers of streaming software, if we miss any good software, e-mail us..
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