A Guide to Web Cam Hosting
Setting up web cam hosting is becoming very popular with today's inexpensive web cams and hosting plans. All a person needs to create a simple web cam is a camera connected to a computer, software that grabs a frame from the camera periodically, and a way to broadcast the images on the web.
If you have your own web server or a web site, you already have a way to post your images on the web. You are well on your way with web cam hosting.
Most people have their home computer serving as a web server. A web server is nothing more than some hardware (computer) that has the ability to deliver web-based content to a web browser.
It that's the case, all you need to start is a camera, software, and your PC.
If you want to use a server that's hosted elsewhere for web cam hosting you will also need the following:
A Simple Setup
To set up a web cam for web cam hosting is a very simple process. First of all, get yourself a camera like the Intel Pro Video PC.
Next, install the software for the web cam on a Windows XP machine. Then go to the web site Webcam32.com and download their program WEBCAM32.
WEBCAM32 is popular software for web cam hosting. It comes in a free demo version or you can get the full version for under $50.
After installing WEBCAM32 on your machine and entering the address of the FTP site, you will be all set up for broadcasting images with your web cam.
Other features of WEBCAM32 that you can experiment with are streaming video, AVI files, different resolutions and compression ratios. These features and more will allow you to create a great web page for your web cam hosting experience.
Advanced Functions
After managing the simple set up above, you can turn your attention to more advanced features of web cam hosting.
Motion sensing, which is fairly self-explanatory, tells the web cam to turn on when it detects motion.
Image archiving with web cam hosting will create an archive that saves all of your images taken with your web cam.
Automation of robotic cameras offers a series of pan/tilt positions of frame capture for your web camera.
Streaming media for web cam hosting uses MPEG4 compression to attain true streaming audio and video capability.
Custom coding is using a set of commands to tell the web cam what to do, such as to make a web cam image automatically refresh.
Setting up a simple web cam is extremely easy; and following the simple guidelines above is a great way to experiment with your web cam capabilities and web cam hosting.
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