How to create your own webcam feed

To day I’m going to show you all how to create a a cheap web cam feed from machine. This is quite easy to do if you follow the steps.

First of all I’ll start with the media servers. In oder to broad cast your video (any type) you need to have a media server which is the one which actually broad casts the video feed. For that you have various sorts of media servers. For example – Flash media server for flash video streaming, Helix server for real media streaming, Windows media encoder (acts both as server and encoder) for windows media player and so forth. from the above list the only thing which come in a truly low price is the WME (Windows media encoder). And the Flash media server costs around 7000$ (if you willing to pay that much can you send me a copy as well .

But since Microsoft is Microsoft, I’ll be using a separate media server, called the VLC media server. (all of you know VLC right? If not, you are either new to the internet or you are too old to use a com ) For those who doesn’t know about VLC, its completely free, reliable and is easy to work with. When installing make sure you install the Firefox plug in for VLC. All you have to do is to check the tick for installing Firefox plug in.

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