[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux as a video surveillance system...

[David Ross]

On Wednesday 04 January 2006 08:17 pm, Pat Regan wrote:
> Richard Geoffrion wrote:
> > What am I looking for that I'm missing? On which terms do I need to
> > search?
>
> I set up a machine doing motion capture using some X10 cameras some odd
> number of years ago using a program called 'motion'.  Seems to be
> available at:
>
> http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome
>
> I still have a test video from a web cam pointed out my old office window:
>
> http://www.patshead.com/movies/tram-and-stuff.mpg
>
> It seems that it can natively build mpeg files now, at the time I had to
>  write a script to stitch jpegs together every so often (I think I
> collected the jpegs into an mpeg once an hour).
>
> Motion can capture from any v4l device, I don't know if it supports any
> other kind of inputs or not though.  Capturing only when motion is
> detected is a huge savings in disk space :).  You'll probably notice
> that my test video is fairly jumpy.  I believe it was set to record 1
> jpeg per second, which was perfect for our purposes.
>
> Pat

I had 'motion' set up on my box a while back until my camera went phizz.
Worked very well...also has an option to ftp the captured file to an off site
FTP server (in case the computer is stolen)
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David Ross
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