HD h.264 network camera?

any recommendations for a HD network camera, preferably with H.264 compression for simultaneous video livestreaming and recording. a couple in my preferred price range ($100-$200) are tp-link tl-sc3430 and the rosewill rxs--3323. alternatively is it better to try to convert an ordinary HD webcam (say a logitech c910) to stream?

 

Yawcam can do it for free with any webcam, you just need to learn how to set it up.

I use it to check in on my office aquarium on the weekends lol

 

thanks for the suggestion. i've downloaded yawcam, and played a little with it, and i think it may do the trick.

 

yawcam is good, I use it too.

 

I have the c910 pretty upset with its quality and software/codecs.

It wont drag/drop to any of my video editors. I have to use some pretty egg head techniques to extract the streams and remux them to a supported container.

When I recorded with it on other software other than the logitech stuff 1080p was not an option supported by the hardware and this stacked with the fact that 720p looked just as good as 1080p (if not better) when I used the logitech software leads me to think they are scamming and just upscaling the video via software and its not "true" 1080p.

This combined with the several bugs in the software for x64 and pathetic support from logitech make it a really dissapointing purchase.

Mine is not hooked up anymore and just collects dust.

This is after the previous webcam I had from logitech also gave me issues (microphone was not compatible with any software, had some sort of issue w/ realtec chipsets logitechs posted solution was to buy an external mic... great support)

I read a few bad things about the main competing product from Microsoft the livecam studio, but overall the quality on it seems higher.

I think the webcam market is not ready for 1080p yet and I just got on board too early.

As for h264 compression. I do not know of any that do it but it can be transcoded by software or later manually encoded into H264 via any of the x264 frontends. You will get a smaller file and better quality most definitely manually encoding it rather than having a less cpu intense transcoding process.

 

well, i've ordered the logitech c910, and i'm going to try to run it using yawcam rather than through the logitech software. from my research, it seems that when you try to record at 1080p in the logitech software, it automatically does some kind of compression, the quality of which may be questionable. so i'll see if using yawcam i can do any better than the logitech software.