Live video feeds from Baghdad:
- Baghdad Pool Cam (n-tv.de/cnn?)
http://62.156.242.10/cgi-bin/redirNTV?user=ntv&type=live&name=livecam_300_new.rm - CNN Live Baghdad Feed (occasional, paste url into RealPlayer)
rtsp://live1.stream.aol.com/farm/*/encoder/cnn_webcast1_high - CBS Baghdad Cam
Sunrise in Baghdad happens around 10:30pm EST. This page barely works for me, but the “Mother of all War Websites” has an extensive list of cams. Too bad it’s presented as a mess of semi-functional Java.
The free version of Real Player only allows one window at a time. However on OS X you can duplicate the application and run an unlimited number of copies simultaneously as long as each has a unique names. Note that this is a very processor intensive application and three small windows almost completely bogs down my PowerBook. These look fantastic, but I still don’t like RealPlayer…
Watching these feeds, I’m wondering why I don’t have live video on my site yet. If these guys can set up multiple webcams in Iraq with little more than a briefcase, I should be able to do it in my apartment. In theory, it shouldn’t be any more complicated than hosting a network video game. The camera which will become my new outdoor webcam was ordered today and should be here next week (backordered). Annoyingly, my PD-100 continues not to be recognized by OS X. I downloaded the Darwin Streaming Server and Quicktime Broadcaster last night, hopefully they won’t be too hard to get working whenever I get a few minutes to try them out.
