hi glen

isn't your webcam compatible with Flash ?
if it's the case, then you only have to make a small swf client app
which simply converts your webcam stream to an FLV stream which is
then sent to your Red5 server or FMS.
then your Red5 server can either stream it directly to other clients,
or store the streams in FLV format on the server side.
I don't know about mjpeg compression, but FLV compression (which
quality and rate you can setup through AS) is very efficient, and
converting the thing through Flash Player on the client side will
probably save you some bandwidth...
It is the simpler solution,
or did I miss something ?

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clemos

On 6/13/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   I am looking into transcoding a single webcam stream into an FLV to consume
> through a media server - ideally Red 5.  This will be done because the webcam
> sits on a domestic ADSL uplink whereas the server sits on, well, the internet.
> We want to reduce the bandwidth demands on the ADSL stream by doing this.
>
>   Our camera can stream an MJPEG sequence, which I can plug into using PHP and
> play it straight into a web page, but now I want more...
>
>   Can anyone offer any helpful links with this particularly:
>
>   grabbing MJPEG sequences and writing to a suitable format.
>
>   Transcoding MJPEG to FLV on the fly.
>
>   The other Red 5 stuff looks like it can be done using the examples, but any
> tips and tricks would be welcomed.
>
>   Thanks
>
>   Glen
>
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