Heres one for you:

[Bman]

Thought I would challenge you all to a little problem I'm struggling with. I dont expect an answer to this one, but you may surprise me

I use Windows Media Encoder and a webcam as a baby monitor. This setup is slightly cheaper than a dedicated device.

Anyway. What I want to do, is overlay the room temperature (from the motherboard system temp) on the streaming video.

There are however two problems here.

1. Exporting the system temp by script.
2. Finding a free WME plugin to overlay text.

I have found a way to export the CPU temp using WMI, but that will be a very inaccurate figure. I want to use the System temp instead.

I could use the in built scripting engine in WME but that would only add captions, not an overlay that we would prefer.

Failing that, I could just embed the stream in a webpage and just display the CPU temp on it, but thats not quite so useful

 

[Garz]

Does the streamed feed display the exact image of the monitor or just the webcam view?

If it is the former then something like Always on top software can achieve this?

 

[Bman]

Just the webcam view Im afraid.

Ideally I want to actually overlay text (or part of the screen) on the streamed footage

 

[Garz]

WPF, i think (windows presentation foundation) will do this but then its well out of my comfort zone!