How to live stream video from webcam on Linux. Have you ever wanted to live stream a video feed from your webcam for someone else You could use any existing video chat software such as Skype, Google Hangouts. However, if you do not want to rely on any third party streaming infrastructure, you can set up your own webcam streaming server in house. In this tutorial, I will describe how to live stream video from webcam by using VLC. VLC is an open source, cross platform media player which can handle virtually all video and audio formats. VLC can also run as a streaming server supporting various streaming protocol such as RTP, HTTP, RTSP, etc. Before attempting to set up webcam streaming on your own, you need to understand the huge potential security risk of streaming a webcam over the Internet. Anyone can tap into your streaming feed unless you properly access control the streaming server, and encrypt the streaming traffic. Ill briefly mention several security protections against threats towards the end of the tutorial. Install VLC on Linux.
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