People watching me.

[Cook]

that's arse... what make is it?

Trust.

[dorkimoe]

well the desktop is going to have to be on a network somehow, otherwise theres no way, unless you just get a super duper usb extender and hook the camera up to the desktop and run it all the way to your set

[completej]

if the TV upstairs doesnt have any type of equipment to receive a signal (slingbox, pc w/ vid out to tv, etc) then you can't go "from usb webcam to tv."

you could get a cheap vid card in the tv downstairs that has a coaxial output, then run the coaxial out the back all the way up to the tv. it would be a manner of outputting whatever stream is coming from your pc to the tv... something like this:

http://www.svideo.com/svideocoax.html

but even then, that's just what the pc is displaying, not necessarily what the webcam is recording.

x10 has some nice cameras that have rca outs that a tv could then receive

http://www.x10.com/homepage.htm

but uh, just tell em to come downstairs and jam instead? :P

[Cook]

well the desktop is going to have to be on a network somehow, otherwise theres no way, unless you just get a super duper usb extender and hook the camera up to the desktop and run it all the way to your set

youve confused me now? from where im standing right now the desktop is just to the left, with the hdmi running up about a metre to the tv mounted on the wall, and the webcam is sitting on top of the laptop directly in front of my shining down onto the TT's, the webcam is connected to the desktop via USB, all i want is to bump up a program, so the cam see's everything i do and projects it onto the tv (computer monitor)

[BradCee]

well the desktop is going to have to be on a network somehow, otherwise theres no way, unless you just get a super duper usb extender and hook the camera up to the desktop and run it all the way to your set

did a search on cnet;
http://download.cnet.com/windows/webcam-software/

[BradCee]

wondering if i could set a webcam up to it permanantly so people can watch on the tv above me what im doing.

you mean just in the garage?

[Cook]

you mean just in the garage?

everything is in the garage, the tv is the monitor for the desktop

like the folk on the "dancefloor" can look up and see what im doing

[BradCee]

everything is in the garage, the tv is the monitor for the desktop

i mean the people watching are in the garage? trying to work out why people are talking about streaming over the net, when there are programs that can do this on the local system easy enough

[Cook]

i mean the people watching are in the garage? trying to work out why people are talking about streaming over the net, when there are programs that can do this on the local system easy enough

THIS IS WHAT IVE BEEN WANTING! a program to go webcam feed -> computer -> monitor

[BradCee]

THIS IS WHAT IVE BEEN WANTING! a program to go webcam feed -> computer -> monitor

check out my link, long list of progs in there that can help with this (well not all of them), just set the filter to 'free license'