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I bought probably the cheapest pan-tilt network camera you can get, the Panasonic BL-C10 ($150.00-built-in webserver, needs no pc to operate). The camera comes with a free service with "viewnetcam.com". they give you "yourname.viewnetcam.com" and after setting up and configuring, you surf to your site and see fairly nice VGA streaming video in the form of "motion-jpeg". The first time you attempt to view the stream, an ocx called "cl_camera.cab" installs on your machine. (only after asking for permission w/XP_SP2). While installing, I noticed where the file lived and was able to download it neatly to my desktop. Now, this service also gives you "yourname.viewnetcam.com/mobile" so you can view still jpegs over any cell phone that can see images on the web. (Pretty cool of them, right?) You can actually pan and tilt from the cell. But when I try to access the site using IE on the 5600, first problem is frames, not handled at all, but easy to overcome by drilling down to that frame. When I do, IE says, "would you like to install blahblahblah", you say yes, it pauses a second, then displays a rectangle where the stream should be, but no stream. So I read elsewhere in these forums that if you had that cab, you could install it and it might work. I was wondering if anyone ever tried to load a cab that was meant for regular IE onto a phone w/ PIE. whew!
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