I would like to somehow feed by camera feed through a web service / site to be viewed over the web. Can someone please point me in the right direction?
I have C#, ASP.NET, Silverlight, and WCF experience already. How does one hook into cameras?
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Are you looking to do video or just frames from the camera?
For video, I recommend using a flash player and some sort of flash media server, like Red5. You can encode using the flash media encoder.
If you just want to display frames, most camera software will dump a frame for you, and you can display it like any other image.
Brad
2010-09-16 23:54:05
Thanks Brad for your response. I would like to stay within the MS stack, i.e. Silverlight. I've never done this before and thus don't know how to start. Can you give me some general concepts I might be able to research? For example, you noted 'encoder', so I'll look that up. Anything other key terms I should look for regarding SL and video?
2010-09-17 05:17:22
Yes, so you need some sort of capture device... like a webcam. Then you need to encode that video into something like MPEG-4 or WMV. Then you stream that to a server. The server then streams it to all of the clients. On the client end, there is a player, which I suppose you could do in Silverlight.
Brad
2010-09-17 19:38:19