Hi guys,

I'm thinking about putting together a web camera. Yeah, I know, boring, been done and all that, but what the hey. And I want to do it properly.

Which means, I think, I need to flexible.

If I wanted to present people with a page from which they could

- Choose to kick off nv to receive live video over the MBone

- Or run CUSeeMe locally to get the same

- Allow browsers to download the last minute's worth of video as an MPEG

- Or get server pushed JPEGs (with appropriate options to set size, # colours, compression rate and so on)

what would be the kit of choice for the discerning PC owner with a copy of FreeBSD and some money to burn?

After poking around the web, the Matrox Meteor pops up in discussion a lot. I like the look of this card, but I notice from the specs at Matrox that it doesn't do on card MPEG compression, which would be handy if I was planning on doing MPEG in real time. . .

I also note that I should avoid PPro systems with the Orion chipset, because of PCI bus speed problems.

Any comments for an aspiring broadcaster?

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