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The first time I watched video stream on the PC through the internet was through RealPlayer G2 on a 33600bps modem. I could never use VDOLive, but I remember it to be well regarded at the time.

Anyone knows a simple FLOSS app that allows me stream a camera directly from my computer? I'd like to try exposing the capture of a webcam through TOR to access it from anywhere without requiring any specialized service.

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It might be overkill, but you could run https://zoneminder.com/ in unauthenticated mode, with a single webcam as an input. It'd at least give you a nice Web interface, as opposed to some other solutions which use raw streams over HTTP/RTSP that aren't approachable in a Web browser.

I'm more interested in something like a simple ffmpeg or vlc command line or a small app specific for the purpose.

ffmpeg will do it.

Webcam Capture: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Capture/Webcam

Streaming: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/StreamingGuide

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