Plug the camera into the usb port (webcam, best to use Logitech 4000 Pro or
Notebook Pro) or Firewire port.  Start Windows Media Encoder.  Use the
wizard to set up a live stream pull-from-player, specify the port in the
wizard and open that port on your firewall.  Start the encoding Session.

drive to your office.

Open Media Player9.  Chose File>>OpenUrl and type in the url to your home
machine including the port number such as : http://www.myhomedomain.com8080/

Watch it.  You learn to live with the 20 second delay for the high quality.

Once you have that you can learn pretty easily how to script the Encoder so
that a link to your home web server will start/stop the encoding and save
yourself loads of processer waste.

After that you will think you need to buy a more powerful machine because
WME 9 is a hog (probably because you are forced, even as a developer, to
install and run the whole darned GUI when all you want is the functionality.

At that point you will look into lightwieght DirectShow alternatives such as
the very inexpensive Vedos Media Server ActiveX control ($49 from
http://www.vedos.com/ ) which does a very good job but uses hard coded
profiles only.  And then you'll discover Viscomsofts' VidCapLive
(http://www.viscomsoft.com/products/videocaplive/) and you'll wonder why the
heck the Media Encoer has to take up 70% of your processor do do what
DirectShow can do so nicely.

(FYI: Nothing against Media Encoder 9's output, I use WME every single day
as part of my job ... but for simple live streaming to a few clients or to a
publishing point it can be way overkill)

Hope it helps.

Robert Smith
Kirkland, WA