Transmit Video Files

[Juan Carlos Rey]

I have a video camera capturing images every second or so and savind them into a file in the hard disk.

I wish to receive these images from another computer, over telephone lines or internet. Any ideas?

Is there any place where I could find info on this subject?

[Cromas]

You'll need to write two apps in the client/server style, the server would be on the pc with the video camera, waiting for the download request. The client would be on the target computer, requesting the images.

An easy way to do this is to set up an FTP server on the 'server', and write a VB app (using the Internet Transfer Control) that downloads the file from the FTP at a set interval.

[Juan Carlos Rey]

Thank you, Cromas.

What about file compression? I wish to compress the file using MPEG or like, to make tranfer faster. Can you help?

[Cromas]

Well, the best way to go would to find a .DLL somewhere that lets you do this.

A friend of mine recently completed a project using iv11.dll(?), which is a JPEG compression DLL, so you should be able to find something pretty easily. Just do a search for 'JPEG DLL' or 'MPEG DLL' or whatever.