Experimenting with webcams this evening, always looking for some way to make TNJT something New! I kind of stumbled back into Yahoo! Messenger (Mac OS X V2.5.3) and found the Friends / Start My Webcam menu option..voila, my JVC Video Camera quickly Fire-wired in to the Mac and provided a stream of the video camera view finder (the camera doesn't have to be recording, but I think you can record the stream also...an added bonus). Very cool and easy.
Then I went over the Windows machine, fired up Yahoo! Messenger with Voice (7.5.0.814), logged into a second VO Yahoo! account, and both the Windows and Mac machines chirped acknowledgment of the arrival of buddy second VO. That's how it's supposed to work, but I'm always amazed when it does...computer's usually suck.
An invite back and forth, and as easy as pie, the Windows Yahoo! was streaming the webcam connected to the Mac Yahoo!. We even played with recording portions / entirety of the webcam as it was broadcasting. This looks pretty darn easy right now.
So...How many concurrent users can be viewing my webcam at the same time? Could an entire listening audience, if TNJT listeners were so inclined?
I've been looking for such an easy streaming webcam set-up for the show and this looks like something I could have fun with. Especially when I have the ability to record the stream as I'm also streaming it to the Internet. Excellent.
Now I'm off to swap webcams, with the JVC hooking up to the Windows machine and the Mac's iSight camera doing duties there. Testing my two camera set-up. Just in time for an in-studio performance by killer bassist Brian Bromberg thing coming Thursday on http://TheNewJazzThing.com.
Posted by outlawv at July 31, 2006 10:48 PM