[entwisi]

I set a streaming cam up at one of the accyweb meets, its actually very easy to get the thing working, the hardest bit is that most people have dynamic IP addresses at home which means that you can never be sure of what address 'viewers' need to know to connect.

Luckily there is a couple of services that get round this. One I've used is dyndns.org these effectively register a web address for you ( say entwisi.mine.nu) and you run a small program that tells them what your current IP address is. then when viewers type entwisi.mine.nu in their browser it looks it up in dyndns.orgs records and it directed by them to where you say you are.


I think I still have the software on Julies laptop, I'll check tonight. It was called Microsoft media server, quick googling isn't showing up a suitable download so they may have withdrawn it or made it a paid for service now. It was/is freeware what I used.