More likely
That the Panda farm is running it?
Mozilla is trying to encourage more people to download the final beta of its soon-to-be-released Firefox 4 browser by streaming various web cams capturing red panda cubs in captivity at Knoxville Zoo in Tennessee. The only trouble being that one of the live feeds from the zoo has "encountered" an unfortunate Internet Explorer …
Wait, what....? They're streaming their webcams by viewing them locally on a monitor using IE and then pointing another webcam at the monitor that's showing the output of the first one?
*Without* printing anything out and photographing it on a wooden table?
Have these scoundrels no respect for tradition?!?
I work with IP cameras from the likes of Axis and Sanyo and most of them use IE ActiveX controls to control the camera and render the video. I'm guessing the cameras in the enclosure are from a manufacturer that works in this way and they've been forced to use IE to get the video into a PC then have re-encoded it for distribution.
I've also worked extensively with Axis and for all the models I've worked with you can get access to the raw H.264 or MJPEG steams without having to fanny around with ActiveX controls and the like. If you were bound to using ActiveX/IE then using Axis with ZoneMinder (or any other non-MS based ip surveillance suite) would be impossible. Luckily, it's not.
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