Streaming with IP cameras
August 18th, 2005
IP cameras were originally created for the surveillance industry, and are great for CCTV footage being viewed by a single person. They are not however really any good for webcasting for several reasons:
a) They normally require proprietary third party software to enable people to watch the video stream.
b) Not many have audio and those that do are not particularly good. One prime reason for this is that there are some legal issues surrounding recording peoples voices, and so whilst it is ok to video a burglar, you are not allowed to record anything that he/she says !!!
c) Every external user connects to your camera through your connection, which means that if several people want to tune in to see what is going on, the connection soon becomes saturated.
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