Deleu

Hi. Firstly, sorry if I may be posting it on the wrong section, I'm not from this line of work. I'm a software developer working on a security solution to a specific matter. What I need is to know if it is possible to stream the footage of a security camera embbeded in my web software. Even though I know little about DVR's, it's only logical to assume that a IP Camera might do what I need, but before getting into that, I'm trying to avoid it because the target are several places that already have non-IP cameras installed. The second question is about IP Cameras: can they be used as security cameras? (Recording n-days of footage, etc) and at any given moment that one person (with access) click on a specific link to watch the camera live? If none of what I'm saying makes much sense, can you point me to the direction to how (if possible) can I watch the images from a camera in real time without using the admin panel that comes with the security camera system? I don't want my users to have to log in into 2 different places to see the cameras. Thanks in advance.

Thank you for the replies and sorry I didn't answer before. I'm working on two projects right now and I've been with a full place all the time. I'll be checking VLC together with DVR to see if I manage to make offline security cameras available online. I'll make sure to come back and reply to my findings. About the android solution, I have to credit it to you: smart move, but in my case (enterprise environment is not a viable solution).