Webcam RTSP

NetHosted Customer Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 2

Hi,

I host a website which has a popular public Webcam. I currently FTP an image every 5 seconds from the camera and use Java to refresh the image on the webpage.

I'd like to now broadcast live video, and can do this using RTSP. But the webcam has lots of hits a day, and each RTSP feed will be separately pulled, so will sap my home bandwidth. Also it would be easy to see my home IP (ie the host) from the feed, which I do not want to broadcast.

Instead I'd like to stream the video to the Nethosted server, on demand, and have each visitor pull the RTSP feed from the server instead. This would minimise the home bandwidth required, basically only one feed being pulled - allowing 100's of visitors to access the site without any problem. It would also keep my home IP private, since users would be streaming from the Nethosted filespace and not from my home IP.

Has anyone any suggestions on how to do this?

Thanks,

Rae

NetHosted Customer Joined: 07 Nov 2008 Posts: 13

I would strongly recommend using a video streaming service like UStream or Stickam. They do all the heavy lifting for you - worrying about protocols like RTSP, etc - and they also work for any user that has Flash enabled in their browser.

As an added bonus they often include features like comments and webchat. You can include the video on your homepage by using an 'embed' code - in the same way that you can embed videos from YouTube on your site.

Hope that helps you.

http://www.ustream.tv/
http://stickam.com/

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