[sllug-members]: OSS video security camera help

[Millard, Dennis]

Mike F. wrote:
>I'm looking for OSS advice on a security video camera project.

Mike-
   I'm no expert on the subject, but I've done a little research.  I've
wanted to set up a surveillance camera in the past.  I installed FC4 on
an old junky laptop without X, and used a USB camera.  Once I got the
camera driver working with V4L, I used this:

http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome

It's a software based motion sensor for the camera... it only stores
snapshots when pixels in the image are changing.  It works pretty well,
and saves a ton of HD space.  There's a ton of options, and it will do
MPEG video as well as spawn multiple threads for multiple video sources.
You could build a PC with multiple video capture devices and V4L should
sort them out and allow you to use Motion.


Dennis Millard
Lexicon Professional Audio Products
Harman Music Group, Salt Lake City
dmillard at hmgsl.com