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Vulpine
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Hi everyone. At work I've been asked to try and find a number of network video cameras to install in our shiny new offices, with the intention of being able to record conferences and stream them to clients over the web. The problem is that I haven't the foggiest idea of what I'm really looking for.
Every ethernet-enabled camera I've found so far seems to be configured just so that you can log into its internal webserver and view the video - whereas we want ideally to be able to encode it through Windows Media services or something along those lines.
Any advice or input would be muchly appreciated. Can what my boss wants be done? He's pretty adamant that we don't put a whole computer in each room with a USB camera attached.
Every ethernet-enabled camera I've found so far seems to be configured just so that you can log into its internal webserver and view the video - whereas we want ideally to be able to encode it through Windows Media services or something along those lines.
Any advice or input would be muchly appreciated. Can what my boss wants be done? He's pretty adamant that we don't put a whole computer in each room with a USB camera attached.
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The problem you're looking at Security equipment rather then Teleconferencing equipment. Security equipment has a very different focus and set of requirements that don't lend it to being kludged into a video conferencing set up. For instances the good video conferencing gear will have echo cancellation which isn't something you'd care about with a security set up.
My understanding, I don't work in that industry but a related one, is that a decent Video Conferencing set up isn't cheap.