I'm giving my thesis defense Monday and want to videocast it to a few family members who were not able to come. I have no experience with multiple-recipient webcam transmission. What's the best way to do this?

PS Doesn't necessarily need to be with the N900, but bonus points for working that in.

Try QIK from Ovi Store repos.
Should do what you need, though it uses a web service.


EDIT: Here is link to it: http://store.ovi.mobi/content/22132

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That looks like it might work but TBH i was mostly kidding about the N900 as i need to have the camera sitting on a table don't have a tripod that works with the N900. Does the LiveCast service (i assume that's what QIC uses) allow the use of a webcam instead of a mobile phone?

It seems like there ought to be a generic way to do this (TCP/IP multicast stream?) considering how long webcams have been around, but i came up blank with a google. Maybe i'm not using the right terms?

Yes, qik works just fine from a standard computer with a webcam. It's just a flash application. Very easy to use.

To follow up, i used Ustream (ustream.tv) after seeing a comment on Qik in Ovi that it wasn't as good as Ustream. The good news is that my thesis was approved by the committee; the bad news is that, in spite of a successful test on Friday, the ustream webcast on Monday was only smooth enough to understand for 1 out of 8 or 9 viewers.