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Qik works fine for me and it's LIVE and you chat too.

This would be a nice app. I would probably be coding something like this at the moment if there was a way for me to develop with QT on my Win7-64bit system (and compile to the device...) But there isn't at the moment, and that makes me a sad boy

MADDE is promising, but i couldn't get it to work.

Qik is a nice app, but it lacks the camera settings, which makes it a non-optimal solution.

Now I got a little bit further.

The current idea is to use gstreamer on the n900, set up a server on it (to use it also online, not only in a local network) and on the pc-side use VLC to grab the stream.

You can talk to the camera of the N900 via gstreamer, by installing gstreamer-tools
and then
for front facing camera
or
for back camera.

For streaming I found this article: http://doit.juii.net/meta/englisch/588
so using VLC on the other end would be the best. No server needed for local network streaming...
Stay tuned, or jump in if you want to help to provide a easy-to-use solution to use the n900 as a webcam.

how do i set up vlc? port & protocol?

this is gonna be great when done : ) love the idea of streaming from an online server, reminded me of american pie :P

I got it to work by doing this:

on the phone

on my computer
now with mencoder I think we'll be able to set that stream as a virtual video device on the desktop

you're tha man!!
it works really well in linux!
of course one have to replace the ip-address with the one of the own PC.
you can also change the resolution.
i've tried it with windows gstreamer but no luck so far. i would have packed it then in a nice .exe package (just a batch file)
thanks you again!
i think we can bring that to a nice multi operating system camera streaming thingi

Hello every body.

I made to short scripts on bash in order to make the streaming easyer:

First on the N900 with root privileges

touch /usr/local/bin/stream-gst
chmod +x /usr/local/stream-gst
vi /usr/local/bin/stream-gst

and there write (remeber to press "i" to edit and when you finish press ESC and then "x:" + ENTER ):

After that run the script:

stream-gst 1 192.168.1.101

In this example you are transmiting from the /dev/video1 (Front Camera) to the computer 192.168.1.101
or
You can also steam from the back camera to all the computers on your network by:

stream-gst 0 192.168.1.255


Then on the PC (with linux and root privileges)

touch /usr/local/bin/get-gst
chmod +x /usr/local/get-gst
vi /usr/local/bin/get-gs

and there write (remeber to press "i" to edit and when you finish press ESC and then "x:" + ENTER ):

And the runing the script specifiing the IP of your N900

get-gst 192.168.1.102

It also work on the other way and direction. To see the web cam on yor PC form your N900.

See you!

Patricio
Pd: Sorry for my english

Thanks!
I'm still trying to get it work for windows users.
On Linux it works great (used the previous posted way..)

When this starts working for windows I can see it being a big hit. I woudl donate for the work on this :-)