I haven’t used it yet but I would take a look at http://www.zoneminder.com/ The documentation explains you can install it on a modest machine with linux and use IP cameras for remote recording. Andrew
VLC also comes with an ActiveX plugin that can display the feed in a web page: http://wiki.videolan.org/ActiveX/HTML <OBJECT classid=”clsid:9BE31822-FDAD-461B-AD51-BE1D1C159921″ codebase=”http://downloads.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/latest/win32/axvlc.cab” width=”640″ height=”480″ id=”vlc” events=”True”> <param name=”Src” value=”rtsp://cameraipaddress” /> <param name=”ShowDisplay” value=”True” /> <param name=”AutoLoop” value=”False” /> <param name=”AutoPlay” value=”True” /> <embed id=”vlcEmb” type=”application/x-google-vlc-plugin” version=”VideoLAN.VLCPlugin.2″ autoplay=”yes” loop=”no” width=”640″ height=”480″ target=”rtsp://cameraipaddress” ></embed> </OBJECT>