Re: Petition n900 as webcam
 

Could this be a use of one of the returned Summit devices? - Sorry if this has already been discussed - but i'm assuming Quim etc could clarify if it is at all possible to extend a loan to a developer? :D

Re: [Maemo 5] Camera stream from N900 to PC? (N900 as webcam)
 

I don't understand why anyone want to install anything on the pc. Hate those idiotic bulky synchronization software like itunes or nokia pc suite, which do very little but garbage every inch of your system, esp. under Windows.
And now you talking actually new drivers and even more software!!

Why not go the orthodox way? All we need to do is setup a streaming jpeg/mjpeg server on the N900. The server should grab images from the camera and mic and stream them as mjpeg (or simply put as jpegs).
Then, on the PC you just use your video programme of choice, specifying the address of the remote camera (like, http://n900-ip/stream:port or http://n900-ip/cam.jpg) and you're done. A lot of IM and Surveillance programmes support remote cameras.
This will make the project fine and platform-independent.

If you want it wired, then you just mount n900 as NIC under Win or Linux, the same way as for wired SSH over usb.

Re: [Maemo 5] Camera stream from N900 to PC? (N900 as webcam)
 

Anyone achived to make an easy to use application for windows to use the n900 as a wireless webcam?

I love this phone, but it looks like its soo difficult to develop apps for maemo 5

Re: [Maemo 5] Camera stream from N900 to PC? (N900 as webcam)
 

flumotion in extras-devel will let you create an http stream from your webcam. The one in extras-devel currently only supports ogg/theora/vorbis streaming but I will be putting one later in the week that does webm/vp8/vorbis and h264/aac/flv.

An example for now (note n900 cpu may be too slow really to do theora encoding):

flumotion-launch pipeline-producer pipeline=v4l2camsrc device=/dev/video1 ! theora-encoder ! ogg-muxer ! http-streamer port=8800 mount-point=/webcam.ogg

Please note that software in extras-devel is installed at your own risk!

Re: [Maemo 5] Camera stream from N900 to PC? (N900 as webcam)
 

are you planning to do a nice UI for this? Do you need help?

Re: [Maemo 5] Camera stream from N900 to PC? (N900 as webcam)
 

There is a nice UI for this, look at: flumotion-admin you can also run this. The only issues are the assistant will not be able to work with the webcam on the n900, that I plan to fix soon.

Re: Petition n900 as webcam
 

Server down? Any chance of an alternate?

HA

Re: [Maemo 5] Camera stream from N900 to PC? (N900 as webcam)
 

any new news?

Re: [Maemo 5] Camera stream from N900 to PC? (N900 as webcam)
 

Anyone tried this yet?

http://www.webcamxp.com

This tool claims to be able to read input from 'IP cameras' (using RTSP/MPEG4 or (M)JPEG) and present it as a DirectShow filter/virtual capture device.

The last bit is important, since most Windows applications that use video (like MSN etc) can (only) get their input from a DirectShow device.

Matching the output of the N900 to the capabilities of this tool should be easy with Gstreamer/VLC/... (I.e.: have gstreamer/vlc/... stream the camera images over rtsp).

It's definitely not opensource, but it seems a free version for personal use is available.
I'm just not really sure yet if it's legit :p

I sure would like to test it out during my VJ gig tonight, but won't risk destroying my XP install with possible spyware :-D
(I really have to start looking into Linux VJ tools)

Re: [Maemo 5] Camera stream from N900 to PC? (N900 as webcam)
 

I installed VLC succesfully from here: http://www.remlab.net/files/vlc/fremantle/

And I tried getting it to stream to my PC using many different mediums and codecs but I'm not having much success. I can't even get to open the stream on VLC on my PC.

Anyone here who had any success in streaming over RTSP with VLC?