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wecam + audio feed to website

Asked by: cybermike3d

Hi there. I have a website that is hosted on a server and I have a PC at home. I have a choice of two video capture platforms. pinnacle, ati radeon.What I want is for people to be able to visit my website and get to a point where they can view the video feed from my camera. I also want to send audio with the video feed as captured by the sound card in both directions between PC's.  Now, where it get interesting is I want them to be able to click on a button and rotate the camera pan / tilt and zoom so they can view different areas and zoom in on selected targets.
So, by clicking on a button on the web page, a data string must be channeled out of the com port on my PC to the Pan/Tilt/Zoom camera. The person viewing the image must then be able to conduct a two way converstation  by having what they say into the mic at their PC come out of the speaker at my PC and what is heard by the mic at my PC must come out of the speaker at their PC.  Is there software that does this or is there anyone that would be interested in helping me set up such a platform. Thanks

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2007-07-09 at 08:35:11ID22683535
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by: coreybryantPosted on 2007-07-09 at 16:58:44ID: 19449817

Webcam32 has a pretty good product.  But tilting might be a different story though and Frontpage sure would not be able to help you out on this.  

Red Apple Media might be able to recommend a company as well - there are a few websites that come to mind for this type of application (mainly adult) and some products are available.  I have not really been in that arena in a few years but a few adult message boards might be a good venue as well if you are needing this application right away

-Corey

 

by: cybermike3dPosted on 2007-07-10 at 05:19:05ID: 19452699

Thanks Corey, OK wecam32 seems to be the way to do it.  Also I found an example where I can get a bidirectional 'press to talk' program called voiperized.  So the video and voice issues soom to be sorted. The only thing that I need to set up seems to be the text.  What I still need is for someone to be able to click on a button when viewing my web page and for a text sequence associated with that button to be channeled out of the serial port of my local computer to drive a servo motor. The camera is used to show where the antenna is pointing,

This is for an amateur radio application. What happens is that I have an antenna array that is aimed at a target which would typically be either the moon or a satellite. An amateur in say New York would select a targeted satellite by clicking on a button. This would send a text string out of the serial port to my antenna servo controler and transceiver setting up the appropriate mode of operation This would 'connect' him to the satellite as it passes over say cape town. This amateur then hits the press-to-talk and he then talks over the intenet to my computer outside Johannesburg, Up to the satellite, and back down to say another amateur in Capetown when both JHB and CPT are in the footprint.

 

by: cybermike3dPosted on 2008-08-29 at 09:24:10ID: 22347019

I have another question still open on dealing with the text issue. I'll get back to this one soon, as this question is only partially answered. If I can get what I am looking for on the other question, I will close both and award the points. Thanks so far.


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