From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Nov 5 12:01:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-multimedia Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA20740 for multimedia-outgoing; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 12:01:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from coconut.blueberry.co.uk ([194.70.52.66]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA20732 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 12:01:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nik@localhost) by coconut.blueberry.co.uk (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA07012; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 20:02:20 GMT Message-Id: <199611052002.UAA07012@coconut.blueberry.co.uk> Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 20:02:19 +0000 From: nik@blueberry.co.uk (Nik Clayton) To: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Webcam -- requirements -- suggestions X-Mailer: Mutt 0.48.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi guys, I'm thinking about putting together a web camera. Yeah, I know, boring, been done and all that, but what the hey. And I want to do it properly. Which means, I think, I need to flexible. If I wanted to present people with a page from which they could - Choose to kick off nv to receive live video over the MBone - Or run CUSeeMe locally to get the same - Allow browsers to download the last minute's worth of video as an MPEG - Or get server pushed JPEGs (with appropriate options to set size, # colours, compression rate and so on) what would be the kit of choice for the discerning PC owner with a copy of FreeBSD and some money to burn? After poking around the web, the Matrox Meteor pops up in discussion a lot. I like the look of this card, but I notice from the specs at Matrox that it doesn't do on card MPEG compression, which would be handy if I was planning on doing MPEG in real time. . . I also note that I should avoid PPro systems with the Orion chipset, because of PCI bus speed problems. Any comments for an aspiring broadcaster? N -- --+=[ Blueberry Hill Blueberry New Media ]=+-- --+=[ http://www.blueberry.co.uk/ 1/9 Chelsea Harbour Design Centre, ]=+-- --+=[ WebMaster@blueberry.co.uk London, England, SW10 0XE ]=+-- --+=[ Where am I going? And what am I doing in this handbasket? ]ENTP