Hi all,
I'm reasonably new to programming and am attempting a reasonably ambitious project: streaming video between 2 apps over the web.

The video is being captured at runtime with a web cam and what I intend to do is send the frames as jpegs. However, the only method I have managed to get to work so far is to save each frame to disk as jpeg and then read it from the disk. The only problem with this is that it is going to kill the hard disks. (and is slower)

So what I was hoping to do is compress the images in an imageList using run length encoding similar to that of JPEG compression. My only problem is that I am not sure of the algorythm to compress my images in that way.

Can somebody please point me in the right direction?
Am I barking up the wrong tree?

Ive tried changing the colour depth of the imageList but it hasnt made any considerable changes to the fiel size. Ive also thought about changing the images to thumbnails but it appears that this can increase the file size.

Any help would be extremely appreciated.
Thansk heaps.

Glytch.