Video Link using iSight on MBP

Hi folks, I have a dilemma.
I am trying to get a live video link up and running for a wedding.
The service is going to be in one room and we need a video screen in another room for the overflow of guests to be able to view the service.
I am currently trying to use the following to no avail.
isight camera on 1st gen 15"MBP 2.16G with 2GDDR2 SDRAM or MB Core2Duo (Black), It doesn't matter which camera we use, they both work fine. Both machines are fully up-to-date with all patches on OSX v 10.4.10
Airport Express base station for connecting the computers wirelessly (on which they can file share etc with no problem).
I have tried various things using QT Broadcaster & QT / VLC with many different configurations, none of which enable me to view a live video stream.
I am currently downloading DarwinStreamingServer to see if this will help.
there must be a way to do this, can anyone shed any light?

Hello mooseworks.co.uk
If I understand your postings correctly, you are not having problems with your iSight.
Rather, you are asking for help with QT Broadcaster and Darwin Streaming Server. If you need more help than you find in the "Help" files for these applications, see Apple's QuickTime "Streaming & Delivery" tutorials.
If you need still more, try posting your question in the QuickTime for Mac OS forum.
Jim

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b Panther
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b see
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