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So I sorta had a crazy idea last night. We operate in 3 different states (Florida, Wisconsin, and Alabama) and I was thinking that it would sorta be cool to setup 3 webcams in each club and stream them online for the other clubs to watch. I was thinking a cam for the dance floor, the karaoke stage, and the DJ booth.

The only problem is, I have absolutely no idea where to start, . Any suggestions? Think it's a good idea? bad idea?

WME windows media encoder. It takes a separate port and a lot of bandwidth.

For kicks I have upstreamed a camcorder with ustream

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Would I be able to have 3 webcams going and have the UStream change cams every few minutes? What I am visioning may be way too expensive or out of my league... but what I would really like is for each club to have a tv that will show a random cam from another club and have it switch which club/cam it's showing every 4 or 5 minutes. I'm not worried about sound of course, Just video.

Marty Ive never streamed with WME but my host sells security systems. I have watched changing camera sequences from a Dallas night club on a cell phone here in Greeley. Camrras can be selected. Read microsofts FAQ'S on WME. It's really not as hard as it first seems.

I have read about guys that watch their cable TV from home at work and can actually change the channel. I dont think sound would be a problem as video takes all the bandwidth. The internal mics on camcorders suck unless the camcorder is close to a speaker.

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Awesome, I going to read up on it... just didn't know where to start. Thanks alot for the info!

Changing cams is pretty simple.. as long as you don't want studio quality.

Many sites allow you stream, http://www.stickam.com is one.

http://www.stickam.com/karaoke_king is a karaoke guy there..

Also it will cost you a lot less than you think.