Streaming web cam for a web site - how to do it?

[hardtofindusername]

I am looking to imbed a webcam into my web site so that visitors can get a virtual tour of our showroom and see our widgets live and up close.

From what I am reading streaming flash video is the way to go. Can anyone tell me how this is done and what software to use?

Do I host software on our office computer and just insert a link into a section in our site? Would it be a piece of code like the YouTube code?

Please help.

Thanks,

- J

[naughtyweb]

The usual way is to have a webcam software that take screenshots from your office at regular intervals (5 seconds, for example). Those screenshots are automatically uploaded to a server (or the server is run within the software itself).

Then you create a webpage which gets the JPG and refresh automatically each 5 seconds. Every user who visits the page will see autorefreshing the image, so it seems a real time flow.

Thats the basic way. A more sophisticated method is using a service like Ustream or Mogulus which allows you to create a real time video flow.

[bill]

It doesn't sound like you're looking for a live streaming app but rather a way to host a video tour of your shop. If it's just a pre-produced video then something like YouTube would work just as well.

[dukelips]

is it a live web streaming or a prerecorded one