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8/24/2005
I am looking for a location where I can install a DSL or Cable Modem where there is a good view, maybe a park or highway, maybe a shopping mall or store even. This would be for an official demo for the newest Livecam Streaming server.

Past Livecam views

The newest livecam supports 4 analog cameras and outputs JPEG server push video streams on from a FreeBSD based PC. The Livecam can also stream 2 audio channels, although the demo will not include audio or at most will have a Radio Tuner card for FM radio.

Anyone interested in providing a home for this video server please contact me. Contact page

6/9/2004
Years after the initial release of livecam we are still the only player in town with no Buffering, no startup delay and low latency under 3 seconds. I am still getting customers calling for servers, and supplying then years after the parent company died and with no marketing and promotion.

I have developed a 4 and 8 channel capable version running on FreeBSD 4.9 and am working on a wavelet version that supports Active-X for playing in the browser.

I am looking for people to help resell as well as help revive a next generation version of this product.

11/10/2003
The Livecam Server is a modular system built on FreeBSD and used named pipes MKFIFO and sockets to connect the different modules together.

Livecam Block Diagram

Since it's parent companies shut down in April 2000. a number of smaller companies that had the original source code selling products under differnet names. E.L.V.I.S FeLix, Video Complex OPTICOM LSX-01
Most of these are in violation of the original license agreements, and are not legal. Since the main company is gone and this software has reverted back to it's author and inventor. At the present time there are no resources to deal with this.
As a result I have looked forward to upgrading and improving thing well beyond the versions they forked off from.

For this reason I am now selling servers for $1500 and source code for $6000. The above image is of a livecam in an Antec Red case, but any generic PC will work. These server support full duplex video and audio, can go to 15FPS, or higher In some configuration I have done 640x480 Full Motion 30 FPS.

Other varations are working under windows also, and a DVR product has been created using some of the concepts and technolgies from Livecam.
VCT Vision CCTV DVR
US CCTV

9/9/2003
I have fired up the Livecam source code made a bunch of improvements and now have it working on FreeBSD 4.8 and 5.1. I used the VIA APIA Motherboard M10000. It works great, Full screen full motion video with NTSC/TV out. Conferencing and streaming. Almost made some fixes to reducing the audio latency to under 2 seconds over TCP (UDP was already below that).

I have also tested 2 4 channel BT878 video capture cards and can not capture and stream 4 live video feeds from 1 PCI Slot on a single PC. The possibility to create a 4 channel DVR based on FreeBSD now exists.

Currently the only really supported video capture card in FreeBSD is the /dev/bktr driver that is for the Conexant BT847 and BT878 chips. The Matrox Meteor /dev/meteor is no longer in production although I have 6 of them still, anyone interested in buying them contact me.
Finding Conexant BT878 cards has become quite difficult but the chips are still in production, I have found a source for these cards wholesale but had to order them in quantity and pay more than I used to. Anyone needed BT878 Cards please contact me. I am looking to get enough demand to justify have the cards made myself, if so other useful things could be added such as audio or digital I/O.

I have also signed an NDA with Conexant in order to get the programming documentation on their CX23881 Chip. The CX23881 is a far more capable chip that can receive composite video as well as HDTV, but this comes at a price. It looks as though the chip has some onboard DSP that has firmware uploaded from the device driver, (similar to some of the Gigabit Ethernet cards). I suspect this firmware is not freely distributable. I am going to see if I can sell (for $1) a binary only version.

Video compression web site

Hollywood Dream Camp, MICHAEL MEYER Fan Club

The Original Livecam Video Streaming Project Now refered to as livecam1 This project started in 1995 and continued till 2001, a total of 6 years. To see more about this history [click here] Photos from the original Livecam server. This is DVBS Inc. the old company we sold under It was also sold under Internet Broadcast Systems IBS, Videocomplex, Tripledubb, Zydeo Inc, and Pervasys Inc This was the underlying technology for the first live Adult streaming video, pussycat.net (now gone), Vidx.com (now gone) KMJ and LIVE inc. Live Interactive Video Entertainment. These companies acted at the back end to the top 2500 Adult sites in 1997 provided several video feeds uninterupped 24/7 for almost 2 years! Original Livecam Product Pamphlet Original Livecam Product Manual

The Original Livecam video streaming technology with source code is for Sale This includes: The Afterburner High Performance Web server. News 11/2/2006 - Afterburner is now open source and available on SourceForge.net https://sourceforge.net/projects/afterburner/ http://afterburner.sourceforge.net/ Benchmarks and demos code here Original Acme.com site for this here Older Sales material on Afterburner Livecam / Webcam source code for FreeBSD. This can stream Motion JPEG into a web browser with audio(GSM and ULaw) not download, no plug-ins , on Buffering. This is still selling into the adult industry and I have sold source now to allow several companies to resell livecams into that industry. ECIP - Error Correcting Internet Protocol, Based on Erasure Codes. SPAC - Unique retransmission protocol for video and audio streaming. (these are aggressive protocols that unlike TCP , don't back off but push harder!) SDSN marketing literature available from the company at that time. SDSN - (Symetricaly distributed server network), a type of Content Distribution Network (CDN) technology, it Dates back to experiments I did in 1990 but the first money wasn't raised for it's deployment until 1995 in a company called Netsys technologies(We had netsys.com). DVBS later aquired the right and network. It encompassed everything the modern CDN's do. This is very similar to what real.com, broadcast.com, iBeam, Akamai and Digital Island do. This was the system used to support VIDX.com's 4 live adult video feeds back in 1997, and ran without a single failure for almost 2 years, supporting 10's of thousands of viewer at a time, and over 1 Million unique video viewers per day. At the time we were supporting well in excess of the Mars Pathfinder mission web hits record, but since we were adult we did not get recognision for the records we were setting, our load was normaly around 500 million hits per day in 1997 served by 40 computers globaly. We had a total bandwidth capacity of 600Mbps The Burn video and audio rebroadcasting servers. Based on Afterburner these work for a number of different compression formats and allowed us to serve 4000 Viewer per computer at a time. Burn could send MP3, GSM audio with Java Client, JPEG compressed video, MPEG2 and MPEG4, H.263. A number of different video compressors all on FreeBSD UNIX, Wavelet, Fractal, MJPEG, MPEG4, and some hybrid's I can talk about under NDA. The source code, consulting services and technology are all for sale. I am also writing a manuscript that discusses the problems with Internet streaming, my experiences, solutions and analysis starting with base theory and empirical measurements we had done. And a comprehensive analysis of the standards solutions compared to the ECIP 1,2 and 3 and SPAK. Over 7 Year of research in this field. Also some of this may be open sourced soon, anyone willing to work on this code and bring it to sourceforge.net please contact me. You can contact John Sokol at Contact Page Please Mention which web site or project this is regarding!

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