displaying webcam image on another PC

[yaro137]

I need to somehow send video image from my webcam to another computer
in my wireless home network. Problem: no access to the Internet. How
can this be done?

 

[R. McCarty]

Neither has Internet connectivity ? - & you're wanting to display the
data in real-time ? Not sure the capability exists. You could capture
the data and save on a "Shared" folder on your Workgroup.

 

[Lem]

I need to somehow send video image from my webcam to another computer
in my wireless home network. Problem: no access to the Internet. How
can this be done?

It's been a while since I experimented with web cams, but I think all
you need is Windows Media Encoder (free download)
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/encoder/default.mspx

There are various how-to articles linked from the site above, but also
see http://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=465446 (as well as
many, many Google hits).


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http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm

 

[Paul]

I need to somehow send video image from my webcam to another computer
in my wireless home network. Problem: no access to the Internet. How
can this be done?

Could you use Netmeeting ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netmeeting

Paul

 

[yaro137]

Thanks Lem and Paul I'll test both the methods and see which one
work's best and is easiest to set up.
And yes, R. McCarty it needs to be live and this can be very easyli
done but not in my situation that's why
I'm looking for other solutions. No Internet connectivity as there
will be only 2 laptops and possibly
an AP if needed in a remote location. One of the laptops will be
connected to a webcam and the other in another
room will have to display the webcam image on a projector. Easiest set-
up: Remote Desktop. That would
do if not for one thing which is the fact that the laptop connected to
the webcam will be in use and I don't
wont this to be dispalyed on the projector. So the only thing I want
to see on the projector is the live image
from the webcam.
Thanks
yaro
..

 

[Paul]

Thanks Lem and Paul I'll test both the methods and see which one
work's best and is easiest to set up.
And yes, R. McCarty it needs to be live and this can be very easyli
done but not in my situation that's why
I'm looking for other solutions. No Internet connectivity as there
will be only 2 laptops and possibly
an AP if needed in a remote location. One of the laptops will be
connected to a webcam and the other in another
room will have to display the webcam image on a projector. Easiest set-
up: Remote Desktop. That would
do if not for one thing which is the fact that the laptop connected to
the webcam will be in use and I don't
wont this to be dispalyed on the projector. So the only thing I want
to see on the projector is the live image
from the webcam.
Thanks
yaro
.

I tested the Netmeeting method here, and wasn't really happy with
the results. My main problem seems to be with controlling the
video source in some detail.

I actually did my test with one computer. I use a copy of WinXP
as the host OS, and ran Win2K as the guess OS in a Virtual PC session,
and ran Netmeeting in both of them. In WinXP, I set up my camera
(something with a VFW driver). Netmeeting could then see the
camera. I couldn't get it to work with my USB camera, but that
may be a driver issue.

Based on my results, I'd be looking for a better application.

The funny thing was, the session did not need a lot of
computing resources or (virtual) network bandwidth. I just
couldn't crank the frame rate high enough. If I made the image
larger, Netmeeting threw away more frames, so the picture
got jerky. And yet it was only using a couple percentage
points of CPU power. I used a WinTV card as the "camera",
to simulate a video source, and it is capable of
30 frames per second without a problem.

Paul

 

[yaro137]

I tested the Netmeeting method here, and wasn't really happy with
the results. My main problem seems to be with controlling the
video source in some detail.

I actually did my test with one computer. I use a copy of WinXP
as the host OS, and ran Win2K as the guess OS in a Virtual PC session,
and ran Netmeeting in both of them. In WinXP, I set up my camera
(something with a VFW driver). Netmeeting could then see the
camera. I couldn't get it to work with my USB camera, but that
may be a driver issue.

Based on my results, I'd be looking for a better application.

The funny thing was, the session did not need a lot of
computing resources or (virtual) network bandwidth. I just
couldn't crank the frame rate high enough. If I made the image
larger, Netmeeting threw away more frames, so the picture
got jerky. And yet it was only using a couple percentage
points of CPU power. I used a WinTV card as the "camera",
to simulate a video source, and it is capable of
30 frames per second without a problem.

    Paul

Thanks Paul. I'm getting similar feelings towards NetMeeting.
Although it worked I wasn't particularly impressed with its
performance.
The video refresh rate was pretty slow where I was hoping you
can get max frame rate on a LAN connection. Also sound was quite
dreadful with lots of buzzing noise. One more thing that doesn't
satisfy
my needs is that you can't put it in full screen mode. Will have to
look for some
other option. Just thought of video streaming but not sure yet if
it'll work in
LAN environment.
Thanks again
yaro

 

[yaro137]

Wouldn't suspect that VLC player can stream video but apparently it
does.
Will be testing it over the weekend.
yaro

 

[yaro137]

Ok, best I found so far is Windows Media Encoder. Easy setup and the
quality is as good as your webcam can produce.
yaro