Streaming and TOS

Customer Support Customer Only Discussion
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I’ve set up a pair of webcams to monitor bluebirds nesting in my yard and now I want to stream the video to my kids’ schools, friends, etc. I have the setup working locally with VLC (videolan.org). Before I share the URL I want to make sure this doesn’t violate the TOS here.

The setup is as follows:

Local VLC server streams to the net over my home 'net connection on two ports I opened in my firewall

Via DynDNS, I set up name resolution to my home IP & ports

The web page uses an embedded Windows Media Player to view the video stream.

My take on the flow of video packets is that they never pass through JodoHost’s servers. The client loads the web page from the server here, then loads the stream from my home IP. Video streams directly from my home to the viewer. Right?

I just want to be sure so I don’t get a surprise “you are kicked off” message!

Thanks,
Tim

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nothing against TOS unless you were showing porn, i don’t think bluebirds count :smiley:

In fact we don’t have anything against streaming at all, we just don’t provide the server services to do it unless someone uses on VPS accounts. (and the bandwidth is counted) if it is not traversing our network the bandwidth is not being utilized here and a non issue.

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The way I’ve been obsessing over these little critters, my wife is beginning to think that maybe I am surfing porn! I’ve spent too many hours to count figuring out the ins and outs of streaming video, the VLC server, Ubuntu, etc. But, I’m such a geek I’ve had a blast doing it.

From last year’s cam:
http://poulsenclan.com/birdcam/birdcamimages/gallery_2_20090513_065535_0.jpg http://poulsenclan.com/birdcam/birdcamimages/gallery_2_20090513_064735_0.jpg

Thanks as always,
Tim