(WEB CAMera) A video camera that is used to send periodic images or continuous frames to a Web site for display. Webcam software typically captures the images as JPEG or MPEG files and uploads them to the Web server. There are countless Webcam sites on the Internet that have cameras pointed at virtually everything. They provide videos of people going about their daily work as well as offering the online equivalent of the live "peep show."
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- Software downloads 2008-06-17
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