[wplug] OSS Surveillance

[Eric C. Cooper]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 12:06:01PM -0400, Henry Umansky wrote:
> I was just wondering if anyone ever used surveillance software that
> captures, records, and maybe even broadcast to a website.  I have a
> store that has 4 domed cameras and a video capture card with 4 inputs.
>  I know the card works with Linux because I tried it with Knoppix and
> xawtv.  So basically I'm looking for the server software to capture at
> least 72 hours of record time and broadcast to a server if possible.

Check out motion: http://motion.sourceforge.net/
I've only used it with a 4:1 analog mux and a single framegrabber
card, but it seems very configurable -- it can record info in MySQL,
serve up the images over HTTP, cure world hunger, etc.

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Eric C. Cooper          e c c @ c m u . e d u