Re: [gentoo-user] linux usb webcam to website

[Albert W. Hopkins]

On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 11:53 +0100, Zoltán Füves wrote:
> Sorry guys to disturb you with like this but I'm stuck
>
>
> I have to 4 usb webcam stream (from 4 different machine)  embed to a
> website
>
> I read and try adobe flash media server (and it likes to work on
> linux ) but
> unfortunately the encoder witch "stream" the webcam to the server is
> available only windows :(  (of course no linux version yet someone use
> wine
> to use but I think this is not the best solution )
>
> I looked for any alternatives I found red5 and an article about how to
> use
> the local flashplayer plugin publish the cam ( http://ptm.fi/?p=29 ,
> http://ptm.fi/?cat=6 ) but I dont really know how to start
>
> Is it worth to try usb-server to use remote cams as local device?
>
> If anybody had experiences about like my problem please help my to
> give
> some  info and manual link
>
> of course I don't insist the adobe product and solution I just want to
> work
> :)
>
> thanks your time and help
>
> have a nice day
>
> Z.

I may have misunderstood your question.

Last summer I was looking to stream my webcam to flash.  I think I
looked at the red5 product but decided against it.  There's also some
web services that will do it but I didn't want my webcam hosted on
another service.

So I ended up using a vlc script.  vlc is cool because not only can you
stream to flv but just about any other format.

script will look something like this:

WIDTH=320
HEIGHT=240
BITRATE=512
BITRATE=1024
CODEC1=FLV1
AUDIODEV="/dev/dsp1"
DEV="/dev/video2"

vlc  \
    -I dummy \
    v4l2://${DEV}:width=${WIDTH}:height=${HEIGHT} \
    :input-slave=oss://${AUDIODEV} \
    --sub-filter time \
    --sout \
'#transcode{vcodec='${CODEC1}',vb='${BITRATE}',acodec=mp3,samplerate=11025}:std{access=http,dst=127.0.0.1:8082/stream.flv}}