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Live Nature Webcam

For ages I’ve been wanting to have a live webcam, but try as I might I just couldn’t work out how they worked. Today I noticed a webcam on a nature website provided by a company called Camstreams. I went and had a look at their site, downloaded their FREE media encoder and bob’s-your-uncle I now have a live webcam.

Magpie Cam!

A photo from the webcam - Magpie Cam!

Trouble is it’s a bit dull… (I have to be honest with you!) the foxes aren’t playing ball, the neighbours cat seems to have done a bunk and all the squirrels and birds are asleep. Still, now that I’ve got it working I can play with the positioning of the camera, and try to bring you some “interesting” live footage (as well as archiving some as well).

It won’t be broadcasting all the time (I have to turn the computer off sometimes you know!), but if you fancy having a look you can view it from the video screen in the right hand column of this blog.

It was pretty easy to set up, so I would thoroughly recommend anyone with a Nestbox camera or CCTV camera to have a look at the Camstreams website if you are interested in this type of technology.

Oh, by the way, I still don’t know how they work… I just followed the instructions and crossed my fingers! Luckily for me it worked.

~ by Jane on March 5, 2008.

13 Responses to “Live Nature Webcam”

  1. I just embedded a live stream from Stickam on my WP blog. I think. It shows a live stream from a radio studio. The radio host is sitting in the screen.

    I had to copy/paste the embed url to the vodpod window that opened but then the rest went as it should.

    http://universalgeni.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/live-streams/

    http://www.stickam.com/

    I am going to remove it again…

    Universalgeni said this on March 5, 2008 at 10:42 pm

  2. It seems that you can embed a live stream from Stickam, UStream, YouCams if you use the Vod:Pod system.

    I tested Stickam and it worked. I did not like the way it looked. You get a menu also, so that people can view all sorts of streams. I have already deleted that experiment.

    I think my first comment landed in your spam box - it had links in it. I actually have more links for you but with your choice of settings, that would be pointless.

    Universalgeni said this on March 5, 2008 at 10:58 pm

  3. WOOHOO!
    EXCELLENT NEWS!
    Live urban extension!
    (Beats the tv any day)

    Doug

    The Black Rabbit said this on March 6, 2008 at 8:36 am

  4. Thanks Universalgeni. I tried webcammax but couldn’t get it to run. Kept crashing my browser. Have tried to fix it, but just couldn’t suss it. Have given up now. Thanks for your help. Jane

    Jane said this on March 6, 2008 at 10:02 am

  5. Hi Doug. Not very exciting at the moment, but if the cubs are born under the shed, then who knows! Jane

    Jane said this on March 6, 2008 at 10:02 am

  6. That’s great! It’s seems a good bet that you’ll have cubs!

    Words said this on March 7, 2008 at 12:31 am

  7. Thanks Words! and welcome to my nature diary. Hope you enjoy it. I got some great video of the foxes last night. So I will run it later. Jane

    Jane said this on March 7, 2008 at 7:23 am

  8. Looks great Jane, something that definately needs looking into further, nice one.

    Mike@fenphotography said this on March 8, 2008 at 4:59 pm

  9. Thanks Mike. Look forward to seeing your own webcam! Jane

    Jane said this on March 8, 2008 at 7:25 pm

  10. I’ve been watching your live web-cam - there seemed to be a ?robin in the water bowl. I’ll watch whenever I can.

    Dragonstar said this on March 10, 2008 at 6:21 pm

  11. Dragonstar. Really glad you’ve had a look at the WebCam. To be honest I’m thinking about moving it’s position. I’m getting a bit bored of looking at the same old piece of grass! Can’t wait till the spring, when the fox cubs might stop by. That will be special. Jane

    Jane said this on March 11, 2008 at 11:06 am

  12. That fox playing on the trampoline the the CUTEST thing ever! you are so lucky you have that in your backyard!

    Olivia Donor said this on June 12, 2008 at 3:53 pm

  13. Hi Olivia. Not in MY backyard… (wish it was) I found this film on YouTube and just had to show it to people. He is the cutest thing though! Jane

    Jane said this on June 13, 2008 at 6:25 am

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