[X4U] Webcam server on OS X? Quciktime Broadcaster?

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I use yahoo IM with no problem.  My PC users with cam see me fine and I can
see them; those without can see me.

Bob


On 11/19/05 5:45 PM, "Stroller" <macmonster at myrealbox.com> wrote:

> Can anyone suggest software for OS X to use my iSight as a webcam,
> please? Not with iChatAV, but as for more general viewing.
> 
> I'd like for the other party - who is on a PC - to use AIM, but they
> don't have a camera, and I don't think AIM on the PC allows one-way
> video-chats with iChatAV users. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but in
> the meantime I'll look for other options.
> 
> The next most ideal solution would just to have something clickable
> that the viewer can use to connect to me.
> 
> I see a bunch of stuff on the web that'll periodically upload images to
> a web server via ftp, but that'll get a pretty lame frame-rate compared
> to iChat - the picture can be shown on a webpage which is refreshed by
> a javascript, but that's pretty old hat.
> 
> Whilst Googling for this I came across QuickTime Broadcaster
> <http://www.apple.com/quicktime/broadcaster/> which would seem to be
> ideal, but I can't work out how to broadcast to outside my LAN. Manual
> & automatic "unicast" modes seem to require me to know the recipients
> IP address, and multicast, although it works perfectly with great image
> quality on the LAN, appears not to be routable to the outside world.
> 
> Has anyone used QuickTime Broadcaster in this way? I kinda get the
> impression that it can unicast to a Quicktime streaming server & then
> clients connect to that. Can anyone advise me?
> 
> Any other _free_ suggestions for suitable software would be much
> appreciated. I'd like to get this up & running, but not enough to
> actually spend money on closed-source software.
> 
> Stroller.
> 
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