Tinycamd is an efficient daemon to serve images from Video4Linux2 web cameras to HTTP. It is particularly well suited to UVC (USB Video Class) webcams.

Tinycamd runs happily and speedily on WRT54 family routers. On a 1GHz x86 centrino-M it consumes about 1% of the CPU to serve a camera.

Goals are:

• efficient
• simple
• reliable
• secure