[4.9-R]Seeking a Wireless [802.11b] WebCam

The Jetman

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Mar 27, 2004, 4:45:30 PM3/27/04

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Quite simply, I'm looking for a straight-fwd wireless webcam that
I can use under FreeBSD pereferrably, but Linux if that's all that's
available. If I have *no* other choice, then we'll even use WinXP. It
*MUST* be wireless, as in 802.11b. It would be really helpful,
if you've personally used it before. TIA....Jet

Heiko Recktenwald

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Mar 30, 2004, 7:43:34 AM3/30/04

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I dont have wireless but I have made really good experiences with
Ciscos open source MPEG4IP mp4live. You must have some nasm etc,
but it compiled under Redhat 9 nicely.

Wireless, XP or whatever, there is no really working QoS yet,
the Protocol, so I was told, maybe others know more.

H.

http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs106/ -- "SMS of Mobile Multimedia" project.

Joe Beanfish

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Mar 30, 2004, 1:36:45 PM3/30/04

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On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 14:43:34 +0200, Heiko Recktenwald <m...@privacy.net> wrote:

> In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc The Jetman <jetm...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Quite simply, I'm looking for a straight-fwd wireless webcam that
>> I can use under FreeBSD pereferrably, but Linux if that's all that's
>> available. If I have *no* other choice, then we'll even use WinXP. It
>> *MUST* be wireless, as in 802.11b. It would be really helpful,
>> if you've personally used it before. TIA....Jet

http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=802.11b+WebCam&btnG=Search+Froogle

Heiko Recktenwald

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Mar 30, 2004, 9:41:50 AM3/30/04

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>> *MUST* be wireless, as in 802.11b. It would be really helpful,
>

> I dont have wireless but I have made really good experiences with
> Ciscos open source MPEG4IP mp4live. You must have some nasm etc,
> but it compiled under Redhat 9 nicely.

The player (mp4player) is in the ports, but for mp4live you need
video4linux, some special interface, that supports everything.
Works nicenst with the Brooktree chip. Redhat 9 Linux.
"Straighforward".

>
> Wireless, XP or whatever, there is no really working QoS yet,
> the Protocol, so I was told, maybe others know more.

"UMTS" etc seem to face similar problems. But it may work, if there is
not much other traffic.

> http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs106/ -- "SMS of Mobile Multimedia" project.

Well, two clips are allready a movie, two MIME types are allready
copyright.

H.

The Jetman

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Mar 31, 2004, 7:39:13 PM3/31/04

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m...@privacy.net (Heiko Recktenwald) wrote in message news:<m1qb4c...@localhost.alleswirdgruen.er>...

> I dont have wireless but I have made really good experiences with
> Ciscos open source MPEG4IP mp4live. You must have some nasm etc,
> but it compiled under Redhat 9 nicely.
>
> Wireless, XP or whatever, there is no really working QoS yet,
> the Protocol, so I was told, maybe others know more.
>
>
> H.
>
>
>
> http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs106/ -- "SMS of Mobile Multimedia" project.

Heiko: Thank you for the heads-up. I *mite* be able to make that work, esp
since I can have a really stable platform behind it. And RH works for me, so
I'll check this out shortly....Jet

The Jetman

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Mar 31, 2004, 7:45:11 PM3/31/04

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Joe Beanfish <joebe...@nospam.duh> wrote in message news:<opr5otzj...@news.thunderstone.com>...

> On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 14:43:34 +0200, Heiko Recktenwald <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>

> http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=802.11b+WebCam&btnG=Search+Froogle

Joe: Thanx for the link, but I *did* find wireless webcams on my own. I
was looking for Linux/BSD-compatible gear. I've looked at the some of the
gear, but so far, I haven't seen one that has Linux drivers. And if so,
do they work ? I watch the groups and there's a big diff bet gear that's
(Linux) compatible and gear that really works....Jet