This might be the wrong forum, or even the wrong site, but here is what I’m trying to do:
- Stream video from a wireless webcam over the internet, to be watched through a flash player.
So far, I can:
- Stream webcam feeds with red5, and watch them in flash
- Stream video with red5, and watch it in flash
The problem I am having is that any wireless camera I can find with any good quality is designed primarily as a security system. They are called ‘ip-cams’ and act as a server on the local network, which means that they are not treated like webcams, they are treated like websites. To make things even worse, the ones I have found use proprietary formats, that you can only use in IE and only then with an ActiveX control.
Ideally, I could just find a wireless camera with a USB receiver that windows detects as a webcam. Barring that, maybe I could somehow take the stream that the ActiveX control is picking up, convert it, and then send it off to Red5 / FMS? Problem is that that approach is both hard to pull off and %100 tied to a specific camera.
I’ve been working on this for months, and just can’t seem to make any headway. It seems like the only real solution is a camera, that is wireless, that still plugs in to a single computer through USB and shows up as a webcam. This also seems like something that should exist… Maybe I could make one out of a wireless USB port and a high-res webcam? I’m afraid of it loosing signal :eyeup:
Any ideas?
