Mixing IP camera streams

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perfo
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Mixing IP camera streams

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I did do my research on this but couldn't find any pointers, so wondered if you good people would have some suggestions. I that much of a noob that I don't even know if it is a PHP question so please forgive my ignorance.
Well here goes then. I want to end up with a simple web page split in to four panes. Each pane will have a stream from and IP camera in it. This I can do as a client side thing.
However I want to do it server side. I want to be able to see my cameras at a location that only allows port 80 traffic (no vpn or ssl,ssh etc) I can obviously port forward one camera and see that but I want to be able to see all of them which would mean combining the four steams at the server side and squirting it all on port 80 to the client side.
I've used programmes such as zoneminder on Linux and milestone on Win 7 and both these do it for multiple cameras but are a massive over kill for a simple as possible viewer.
Thanks for all that read this and even more thanks to anyone that can point me in the right direction for a solution.
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Re: Mixing IP camera streams

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There's an easier method: proxy the streams themselves. You can tell Apache to forward requests from something like "/camera1" to wherever the stream is. Totally transparent to the end user, the request stays in the network, all that stuff you need.
Then a (shudder) frameset to show everything. Or styled iframes, but really I think a frameset is okay for this.
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