Streaming webcam live (for remote surveillance)

[MakeItSo]

Hi friends,

I am currently trying to achieve live streaming from a webcam (scope: inTRAnet, not inTERnet) through an ASP.Net website.
What I have achieved so far: using AForge I can display the video from my webcam live on a desktop client (C#) and also save scheduled snapshots, so no problem there.
However I want to be able to also remotely view it.
I created a Silverlight application in hope of achieving this - alas, this accessed the Client webcam, not that of the server...
Then I tried using MS Expression Encoder but IIS Smooth Streaming is only available in Encoder Pro - which is no longer available.

Have any of you tried such live video streaming yet and do you have any recommendations?

Thanks!
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Update:
I think I might have thought too complex here.
I'll probably do it like this:
[ul]
[li]use the functioning desktop client to save a snapshot to a pre-defined filename[/li]
[li]setup a simple Web site with an image (the pre-defined snapshot file)[/li]
[li]add a simple "<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1">" to the head[/li]
[/ul]

This will give me at least me live stream of 1 fps, if I manage to avoid read/write clashes. Not perfect, but a viable start.

Still open for any suggestions of course!

Ta!
MakeItSo

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Final update:

meta refresh did not produce very good results and since I actually do not need to reload the entire page, I settled on AJAX and a Timer event server side instead.

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