Re-publish video stream as streaming FLV

Question

A client of ours has a mobile web cam placed in a forest that is streaming video on a public IP address. Since the web cam has a limited bandwidth (and it is streaming with a format that often requires clients to install a codec), the stream needs to be re-broadcast by a server on a landline, preferably as streaming FLV.

What components can be used to write a client/server that can do this? It would be written using C#.

(Software solutions would be fine too, but we're on a limited budget so it can't be something very expensive...)

Answer 1

What's the format that the camera is sending you?

Rebroadcasting is easy using off-the-shelf servers - which means no programming as such, no C#.

camera -> ffserver -> flash players

ffserver is part of ffmpeg.