Ghetto cam?

[nathan312]

I have a dinky netbook and I love it. But, I was wondering if I could use just the built in cam as a "ghetto webcam" streamed to my main pc. I don't want to use the chat program on my netbook because it's uber laggy. I was just wondering if it's possible to somehow hook up something to each comp and then use only the camera on the netbook to use through skype on my main pc.

Is this at all possible?

 

[johnlgalt]

You'd have to figure out how to do 3 things:

1) Stream video from your netbook to your computer (prolly some sort of streamig software for webcams, like in this MaxPC post, from 2006, no less): How To: Stream Video from Your Webcam to the Internet | Maximum PC

2) Set up your main PC to receive this stream.

3) Set up Skype to use the stream as your own web cam (and this is probably going ot be the hardest part). This thread may help: Virtual driver for IP cams - Skype Community

 

[nathan312]

Thank you very much man!