[sllug-members]: OSS video security camera help

[Mike Bourgeous]

You may find this interesting:

http://www3.elphel.com/en/products

It's an OSS security camera.  There's a $100 discount per camera if you 
release custom software for it under the GPL.

Mike Bourgeous

>From: "Millard, Dennis" <dmillard at lexiconpro.com>
>Reply-To: Salt Lake Linux Users Group Discussions <sllug-members at sllug.org>
>To: <sllug-members at sllug.org>
>Subject: RE: [sllug-members]: OSS video security camera help
>Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 16:23:07 -0700

>
>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
>

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