Recommendations software to turn webcams into ip cameras?

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jerrya
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Recommendations software to turn webcams into ip cameras?

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I have a variety of PCs around my place running windows or linux and each either has a webcam, or could certainly support one.

But they are not the linux box that will be running zoneminder.

Are there open source / free / low cost applications out there that can take a webcam and turn it into an IP camera?

Another question on this forum asked if VLC could do that, sadly, no one ever responded to that, but that would be very nice.

Thanks,

Jerry
Flasheart
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Re: Recommendations software to turn webcams into ip cameras

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mjpeg-streamer does that job in linux.

There are similar free things for windows, but try to get one that does mjpeg, or if it does jpg only - get one that fetches the image on request, rather than reads a jpg off the filesystem, as repeated fetching and writing will mean you'll get half-formed pictures as it reads while it's still being written.
jerrya
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Re: Recommendations software to turn webcams into ip cameras

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Sheesh. Of course. Thanks for reminding me about MJPG-streamer, I swear I used it less than six months ago at work. D'oh!

I'll still look for some windows apps, but thanks for the advice.
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Re: Recommendations software to turn webcams into ip cameras

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Found another nice one for win. http://webcamspy.sourceforge.net/
jerrya
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Re: Recommendations software to turn webcams into ip cameras

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Thanks, that does look very useful and just about what I am looking for.
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