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Use An
Internet
Camera
To Support Your Streaming Needs
You
may need an Internet camera today more than at any other time.
Just
about everything you accomplish today can be done online...and
a
good webcam is part of that experience
Essentially what an internet web camera does is that it
sends video directly from your computer to your desired
location.
You can
now chat with your friend whose miles away or maybe even another
country and actually see him or her and what their doing.
Network
Camera Support
Hardware
- Most web cameras connect directly into your
computer.
- Can be known as wired Ethernet that
may consist of adjustable antennas for added WiFi use.
- Many webcams can be put to use with
any usual tripod or attached directly to your computer.
- The camera has to be focused by using
the focus ring. This ring is front mounted.
Software
- Software usually consists of a Compact Disc
that comes along with the camera.
- This software must be installed before the
internet web camera can work properly.
- The web camera is set up and the
preferences are specified
using the web browser interface.
ActiveX
control
- An ActiveX control must be downloaded and
installed on the
viewing computer.
- This will enable you in seeing the video stream
from
a remote location on the Internet.
- The control must be placed on a
server that is accessed continuously.
- The small OCX control could be
placed on a personal web site and uploaded using the FTP process.
- The
directory path must have a trailing backslash.
A networked internet
camera on its own runs a web server on Port 80.
Those who are running a
web server on the network can allocate an alternative second port for
the camera.
The correct port must be forwarded on the router to the IP,
where the camera is assigned.
The Web browser interface is used to
configure the image properties.
This includes the video resolution. The
quality of the video stream can be handled by the compression and frame
rate settings.
Light frequency, hue, contrast and brightness can be
adjusted.
The internet camera gets the date and time
from the time server or Network Time Protocol.
To use this function,
there is a necessity of the IP address of the server in place of the
friendly server name. Another method is to specify the time manually.
For
additional video
streaming information, such as the Internet camera
section here, please check out the related
topics: wireless
streaming, video
extension,
streaming
mobile video and Internet
video.
And for
more streaming media info, don't
forget to visit the streaming
media hosting, streaming
server, broadband tv,
online
video sharing, video
teleconferencing, video
webcasting and digital
media sections.
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