Using a CCTV Camera for a Live Streaming Wildlife Cam

Posted on March 30, 2010February 21, 2023 by Mike Haldas

CCTV Camera Pros has partnered with CallingDucks.com to provide a live wildlife camera video stream of an area in Tennessee were turkeys congregate in the wild to eat. CCTV cameras are an excellent choice of equipment to create live streaming cameras to embed video into a webpage. When used in conjunction with a PC based video capture card or USB device, the live video can be used with Windows media encoder or the Ustream video producer to stream live videos in a webpage.

2023 Website Camera Streaming Update

CCTV Camera Pros now recommends using our Viewtron IP cameras to stream live on a webpage. You can learn how-to stream an IP camera on a website here.

Here is the actual video stream website embed (HTML) option using a Viewtron IP camera. Please click on the above video player to start the live stream. After the video streaming starts, you can click on the full screen icon in the lower right of the video player to see a full screen view.

To view the live stream of this video that is embedded into a web page, please click here: View the Live Turkey Camera.

Video Transcript

The following video demonstrates using a CCTV camera to capture surveillance video for a live wildlife camera embedded into a website.

The BIPRO-540L4 IR CCTV security camera is used in this particular installation. It features 540 lines of resolution, a weatherproof housing, a 4mm fixed lens, Sony CCD sensor, 36 Infrared illumunators for night vision surveillance.

The area under surveillance for this live wildlife camera is a field in Tennessee where turkeys congregate to eat.

The CCTV camera is connected to a USB video capture device that is connected to a windows PC. The windows PC uses Windows media encoder to turn the video into a video stream that can be embedded live into a webpage.

Although the audio was not used in this archived video, CCTV Camera Pros also supplied an audio surveillance microphone for the project. You can hear the live audio if you visit the live streaming website.

You can view this camera streaming live over the Internet as well as links to the equipment that was used by visiting cctvcamerapros.com/turkeycam.

If you have any questions about video surveillance, please contact us on our website at www.cctvcamerapros.com.

Thank You for watching.

About Mike Haldas

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Mike Haldas is the co-founder and managing partner of CCTV Camera Pros. Mike works on product research and development for the company. Before starting CCTV Camera Pros, Mike worked as a software engineer in the web hosting industry. CCTV Camera Pros is a veteran owned business as Mike proudly served in the United States Marine Corps (USMC) from 1993 to 1997. Mike can be contacted for questions about this article and anything related to video surveillance systems at mike@cctvcamerapros.net.

2 thoughts on “Using a CCTV Camera for a Live Streaming Wildlife Cam”

Hi,
I have a question for you
Is it possible to convert a remote IP Camera video (with control panel interface) to a video stream (without control panel interface) for embeding into a website?

Regards
Gary

Gary,

Yes, if your IP camera supports the ability to display a JPEG image or a MJPEG stream, you can do this via Javascript. Unfortunately, I do not have any code examples but any knowledgeable Javascript developer would be able to embed the stream into a web page for you.

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