Help: Video Streaming

How video streaming works

When you upload pictures to a webserver, the visitor to your site gets the images from the server together with the rest of your website.

With video streaming, the visitor will get your website (html and graphics and so on) from the webserver, but the he will get the actual video directly from TinCam on your computer.

Video streaming

This means that the video is only available when your computer and TinCam is running. If they are not, the visitor will get a connection error.

It also means that if you connect to the internet via a router, you will have to configure your router to allow incoming requests for the video stream. Otherwise your visitor will get an connection error again.

Setting up video streaming

These instructions a seperated into 3 parts:

  1. Setting up video streaming in tincam
  2. Setting up your page to show the video
  3. Configuring router to allow access to the video stream