You little BEAUTY!!!!!!!

I got the webcam up and running. All thanks to the thing that started it all in the first place. justin.tv This is a web site for people who want to broadcast their lives to the world through the power that is the world wide web. I have used it before but only as a two way video conference with my cousin Ian. The problem was I could hear myself on his computer and vice-versa which was causing huge back feeding problems. One way around this was to both wear headphones. But also there was quite a bit of delay using it as a conference tool as well. It is just designed for one way. Another cool thing about it is that there is a chat room linked to it as well. Although you have to be logged on to the actual web site for that. The way I am using it is to just embed the feed on my web cam page. I have put a password on the feed as well so that no-one can just browse on to it and look at Nicholas playing, (freaks keep moving!). This way only people that come to the web cam page will know the password and be able to enter it. It will probably change randomly as well just to keep things interesting ;-)

I finally figured it out

So I did some research on my web server and it turns out that i am not able to host streaming media on there. I was probably doing everything right with the encoding and embedding but it just wasn't happening. Now i will have to look into other options. I made need to change web hosts as to upgrade to a server that can carry streaming media is quite a bit more than $5 a month.

I couldn't leave it alone

But I changed a lot of stuff around including machines, software and camera position. It did seem to work for me but I was on my own network, but it worked really quickly and easily. Try it out and let me know.

Webcam is GO!

I know it's working now because I have tried it on a different computer on a separate network. I had to change the refresh rate so at the moment it is very slow and jerky. Almost like a photo refresher. I will keep messing around with settings till I get it streaming. As a side note, if anyone has a working knowledge of Apple Quicktime Streaming Server or Darwin Streaming Server I would appreciate some help. I am also looking into setting up one of my five computers (yes Ian) and using it as a dedicated server rather than streaming it from my iMac, so any Windows streaming software knowledge would be good also. I have head that Microsoft's Media encoder is quite good but haven't even looked at it yet.

I will be on Yahoo Messenger

If you want to talk to me, I'll be here.

Would you like to send me something?

Well now you can, and not by emailing them either. I have started a guest ftp account. For those of you out there that do not know what ftp is (in other words everyone except Phil) I shall explain. Basically ftp (file transfer protocol) lets you upload files to a particular web site. It's that easy. I have to use an ftp program, or client, to spread my lovely words to you each time. I'm lucky because the web creation program I use (Rapidweaver) has a built in ftp client which I think most web design programs would. However, you lucky little sods get a ftp client for free. You have probably used it before and not even known you were. In fact I would bet 80% of people are using it right now. Yep, Internet explorer can be used to as an ftp client.

Here is how to do it.
Step 1: Type ftp://guest@deejaydoubleyou.com directly into the address bar.
Step 2: Now a dialog box should appear asking you for a username and password, enter this: username = guest@deejaydoubleyou.com, password = 123456 and press enter.
Step 3: Now you browser window should look like your documents folder. Now you can simply drag anything you want into the big white space you have below the address bar. Alternatively you can drag files into the deejaydoubleyou.com folder you have on the left hand side on the screen where your normal documents folders are located. Once you drag something across IE automatically starts to upload it to my guest directory on my web site. *IMPORTANT* This folder is not public so whatever you upload will not be directly displayed on my web page until I move it to the correct place, so any naked photos (Ian) are safe.

This is amazing...

Just check this out!

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