On 12/14/2018 10:46 PM, nospam wrote:
In article , mike
wrote:

I'd be interested to hear about an IPCAM viewer that
can display a compact window without a lot of overhead.
I can't use anything that captures images from a live stream. That uses
way too much local network bandwidth.


most output an mpeg stream, which uses very little bandwidth, however,
there are cameras that will upload snapshots at a user-defined interval
to a user-defined server (or public) if that's what you want.

I really don't want to download (as in store the image somewhere)
anything. I want to read the image data and render it to the
screen...period. The only reason I care about it being saved is because
of disk clutter and SSD life.

I run bleachbit about once a week. It typically throws away about half
a gigabyte of stuff, mostly in .ie5.

As for the mpeg stream, my network can easily handle the data rate, but
it obscures my ability to watch
internet access going on in the background.

it should have no effect on internet access since it's entirely local.

Read it again. It OBSCURES visibility of internet access by adding a
significant baseline to the graph of network activity.