hey, is this possible with a pi?

[knil92]

hey, basically i want to know if its possible to hook up a webcam to a raspberry pi, and a 3g dongle, and stream audio and video live over the internet so people can go to a webpage and view the stream?

[cyrano]

Yes, but it's not simple.

Hooking up the webcam has been done hundreds of times. Of course, the RPi camera is much simpler, much better and not expensive.

Setting up a server to broadcast the video has been done dozens of times too. A lot depends on what you want. There's a world of difference between a birdcam with a couple of simultaneous viewers and a popular video broadcast with hundreds of users.

Have a look around the forum. Start here:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/tag/webcam
http://www.raspberrypi.org/camera
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/tag/camera-board
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/5071
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/tag/camera

You 'll see the sky is the limit. Or not really, since people are also using it for astrophotography:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/4170

[knil92]

okay so what would be the easiest way to set it up so a few people could watch at a time? also thanks for the help, and im going to look at the link