Live webcam webcasting

aabfm · 08-11-2006, 05:59 AM

Hi guys,
Since 1 month ago I am teaching a dozen of students, but last week two of them had a car accident and they are home recovering.
How can I use a webcam (right now I own a Trust SpaceCam 360 and an older Philips) to live webcast the classes so they can watch it at home in a browser such as IE? Do I need any special software?
This would also prepare my future courses to reach much more students far away.
Thanks in advance.

unSpawn · 08-11-2006, 08:26 AM

If everyone already uses an IM like GYachI / Yahoo client you're done I think (Skype for Linux doesn't do webcams and even then the codecs used still are lower quality). Else you would need something local to grab the audio and video stream (a webcam server) and an accessable webserver (to host a Java applet on). I think Spook (http://www.litech.org/spook/) is the only one that does streaming A+V.

aabfm · 08-13-2006, 06:48 AM

But, does spook acts as webcam server and a webserver?
I'm sorry for the question but I'm really a newbie at this.

unSpawn · 08-13-2006, 02:34 PM

But, does spook acts as webcam server and a webserver?
Spook compresses from your webcam and microphone and serves the stream all in one (so no webserver needed since you won't be serving an applet). Mas informacion is available in the readme. Your students just will point their client at your IP address.