"Relaying" video streams

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Wed Nov 19 09:41:54 EST 2008


On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Bruce Dawson <jbd at codemeta.com> wrote:
> We've got several web cams that people like to visit
> (www.milessmithfarm.net). However, they're chewing up bandwidth when
> more than one person at a time views them.
> Is anyone aware of a Linux based video re-broadcaster (either software
> or a service)?
> We'd like to upload the video streams to a single server that multiple
> people can connect to and view them. This way, we're only sending one
> video stream up to the server, and the server can rebroadcast it to all
> the connected clients.

  I can't speak for their use for your purposes (I cant go check right
now, firewall says apperently webcams aren't work related, go figure),
but I did search thru my email when talking to someone else in the
past about this very subject.

http://camstreams.com/

-- 
-- Thomas


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