Show us you WEb cams on your tank

[bob21115]

I setup a web cam on my reef tank about 2 years ago. I'd love to see who else has one.

Click here for my Reef Cam

[Rob]

i dotn have a cam,
but yours doesnt work on a PC with firefox, or on my Mac with Safari or firefox, since it uses and an ActiveX control its only goign to work on IE, and personally i hate IE...lol
but will check it out next time i am on my PC

check with Scott, he has one that works on all platforms, i think its Java based

[bob21115]

I know about FireFox and safari. I got it to work on my MAC OSx with Safari but I did have to install Windows Media player for OSX.

I havn't found a java one that works really well. They all seem choppy and or they stream images. Rob its work the look.

[fat walrus]

is there such a thing as a underwater (in tank) web cam?

[bob21115]

Im sure you could make a sealed housing for the camera, but why?

[fat walrus]

don't know much about photograghy, i thought maybe it was cool to have camera inside to get close-ups and odd angles.

[wwest]

put the camera in the tank and see what the fish see when we druel over the tank lol

i do like the intank idea, you could put a wide angle in the front bottom center of the tank and get some cool shots..

[fat walrus]

yeah that would be goofy.

[veriann]

a pin camera in a aquatic haligen spotlight casing would work. any pond store or Qwerky LFS should sell them

[bob21115]

I still dont understand why you would want the camera in the tank?

[wwest]

shawn, i am setting up a tankcam later today and i was wondering what software do you use?

[bob21115]

I use windows media encoder at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...r/default.mspx

[Kevin McG]

Originally Posted by bob21115

I use windows media encoder at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...r/default.mspx

What version on that page are you using? I think I tried that software and had a difficult time streaming to my website.

[bob21115]

Originally Posted by Kevin McG

What version on that page are you using? I think I tried that software and had a difficult time streaming to my website.

Kevin,

I used Windows Media Encoder 9 Series the 32-bit version of Windows Media Encoder 9 Series for Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

I them ran the wizard when it loaded and this is the html code that gets mine running on the web site:

<table id="table1" height="240" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="320"><!-- MSTableType="nolayout" --><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="10" height="240"><object id="MediaPlayer1" codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,70
" type="application/x-oleobject" height="240" standby="Loading Microsoft® Windows® Media Player components..." width="320" align="right" classid="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"><param value="http://24.11.95.65:8080/" name="FileName" /><param value="True" name="ShowStatusBar" /><param value="False" name="ShowPositionControls" /><param value="False" name="ShowTracker" /><param value="False" name="ShowControls" /></object></td></tr></tbody></table>


The one thing I found was if I used the website name it wouldn't work I had to use the IP address. You also Have to open the port on you fire wall so people can get in. Mine was port 8080.

Hope this helps....

[fat walrus]

Originally Posted by bob21115

I still dont understand why you would want the camera in the tank?

lol. it's was just a curiosity of what might be available. it has crossed my mind numerous times what the inhabitants in the tank would like like from angles you cannot see from outside. kind of like a fish's perspective.

[fishworld_2007]

ye like making your own fish aqaurium dvd :P and you can add like a journal day 1 my fish is swimming day 2 still day 3 still day 4 oh the fish is ermm repoducing omg this is an XXX dvd lol. you get the idea
well its more intresting then watching tv the reef tanks are. so thats the reason of having a camera.