Remote network camera

Hello all,
I would like to know if anyone knows of a good camera to use as a remote camera to capture video and audio via the OS X server.
I would like to set up a few cameras in different locations that connect to our OS X server (10.6.7). Most USB cameras don't display clear SD or HD on a Mac. I tried the Logictech C910 and the resolution is not good enough to capture lectures clearly.
Can anyone suggest a good camera?
Thanks!

If you're trying to use the Podcast Producer server app to capture the video, make sure the camera is in the list of compatible ones.
Firewire cams are almost all compatible.
USB ones... Not so much.
From Apple's Site:
Start and stop.
A podcast starts with the Podcast Capture application in Mac OS X. This innovative tool makes it easy for users to capture high-quality audio and video from local and remote cameras, record screen captures, and upload existing content into Podcast Producer 2 for encoding and distribution. Podcast Capture records audio and video from a wide range of devices, including digital video cameras connected via FireWire, USB microphones, and iSight cameras.

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i can not thank you enough for taking the time time to help me!!! i really appreciate it.... i have done the set up with the d link router and am now trying to access the camera from the web.... but i am having trouble logging in and finding it? i am not sure what ip address to enter into my web browser? i think that i need to add the ip addresss folllowed by a forward slash and then the port # 80.... but what ip address should i add? in the device info part of the d link router i have found a number of ip address's... but none of them seem to work? what am i doing wrong? or not doing? my apple base station is set up in the bridge mode with a password to protect it...
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Hello all -
Was wondering if I could get some advice.
I would like to make a network camera, that is currently connected to my LAN, available to the www.
I have a static IP address from my broadband supplier - and have set up a domain name with an external ISP that points to my static IP.
I am running DNS on my OS X Server and have made an entry so that the same domain name points to the fixed (internal) IP of my network camera (which is 10.0.1.5)
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Thanks Camelot
Really appreciate your help.
I did try the 'wrapper' solution - and it didn't work from outside the LAN (fine from inside the LAN, or outside with a VPN). Seems as if the remote users browser / machine is still looking for a private IP address - obviously without success. This surprised me as I thought it would work. I used an HTML page from the camera manufacturers website. Pasted below : (my camera IP is 10.0.1.5)
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<html>
<head>
<title>Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<center>




<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">// Set the BaseURL to the url of your camera
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var DisplayHeight = "240";
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output += '<param name="ShowStatusBar" value="0">';
output += '<param name="ShowToolbar" value="0">';
output += '<param name="AutoStart" value="1">';
output += '<param name="StretchToFit" value="1">';
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output += 'The AXIS Media Control, which enables you ';
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output += '" HEIGHT="';
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output += '" WIDTH="';
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output += '" ALT="Camera Image">';
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// document.Player.MotionDataURL = "/axis-cgi/motion/motiondata.cgi";
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Port Forwarding For Network Cameras On Infinity

Basically if you have network cameras and want to access them remotely with BT Infinity, get rid of your BT Home Hub 3!
Whatever configuration they have inside for their infinity setup, the ports you open for your cameras will never be accessible. I was aware of this before the installation from reading about it online but these were old posts and hoped this problem may have been resolved by now.
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