How would I go about streaming a webcam to a website?

Question

How would I go about streaming a webcam to a website? Всем хyяkaм посвещается.

Answer 1

You could try DCAM Server

Are you interested in writing your own software to do this, or are you searching for an application prebuilt to drop into an existing site?

Are you looking to perform any coding beyond HTML tags?

Answer 2

Just use this page:

http://www.camstreams.com/

That will do it.

Answer 3

The VLC media player can stream video from a webcam to at least one, and possibly many, web clients:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/streaming.html

I've used it to feed Ogg Theora video to a <video> tag in Firefox 3.5. The one gotcha was that until VLC was configured to send the "application/ogg" MIME type under Preferences (All) -> Stream output -> Access Output -> HTTP, Firefox didn't recognize it properly.

You might need to use a separate server like Icecast to support multiple streams:

http://www.icecast.org/

(Although most of the Icecast site talks about audio, apparently it supports Ogg Theora video streaming, too.)

Answer 4

I've used Flumotion Streaming Server to serve live webcam feeds over HTTP before, it works pretty well. You just need to go through its configuration, add the webcam as a source, add the HTTP server as a sink, and then everything just magically works.