Showing Live webcam on website

Can we show live webcam on website using Silverlight? 1 Year back i used Flash and Red 5 Media Server to do the same. RED 5 is open source alternative to Flash Media Server. What can be out Media Server in this case? Can i use the same RED5 media server with Silverlight C# too? Or media servers are technolog开发者_运维技巧y specific. If so, which would be our Media Server in our case? I know Silverlight has webcam support and it can show our webcam. But what about broadcasting?

Thanks in advance :)

SocketCoder put together a series of example articles on how to do this on his website here. As I recall, he recommends using the CSpeex voice codec along with a simplified Motion-JPEG style video codec. Having pursued that path at some length, I suspect you'll find that it works in some though not all scenarios. The CSpeex codec is great, but the Motion JPEG video encoding/decoding is pretty CPU and bandwidth intensive, since it relies on FJCore, a fairly inefficient C# port of a fairly inefficient Java JPEG implementation. I also understand that a company called StreamCoders has a Silverlight H.263 video encoder that supports a nice range of standards, but I haven't tried it yet and I don't know what, if any, limitations it has. And it's not cheap, starting at 1500 euros for one developer license.