Thanks for the answer, but home-cooking this is exactly not what we are looking for. I was asking about well-cooked solutions.
On Dec 9, 2012, at 7:10 PM, David Lang wrote: > Not really my field, but I know I've seen stuff in passing about opensource > apps that will do video capture from many cameras, including motion detection > (so not recording when no motion is taking place, etc). such systems > obviously integrate very nicely into Linux. I don't know if anyone is > packaging such systems up and selling support for them or not. But this > should now be out of the relm of relying entirely on unix hackery. > > If I were to tackle such a project from scratch, I would look at options that > would leverage MythTV or XBMC to be the display/playback units and look for > ways to get the captured video archived in formats compatible with these > systems > > Another option, I've seen the term RVU around recently (wikipedia page that I > haven't yet read at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RVU_protocol ), it appears > to be a way for systems to access DVR type resources, and apparently some > DirectTV DVRs support it and some TVs support it natively so you don't need a > separate computer (although a Raspberry Pi is cheap enough that the software > flexibility with something like XBMC or MythTV may be worth the extra > complexity) > > not a cooked answer, but I think it does mean that things have changed > drastically since you looked at options 5-6 years ago. > > David Lang > > > On Sun, 9 Dec 2012, Jo Rhett wrote: > >> This probably isn't something that most LOPSA people play with, but if you >> do I'm curious what you think. One of my customers has some aging March DVR >> units. Good, high-quality video from both cabled and IP cameras. Something >> like 60 cameras across 2 sites total. At the time I looked (5-6 years ago), >> nothing compared to March in terms of quality/price for that density. >> >> Has anything else sprung up or that I overlooked on my previous review which >> we should consider? Note that solutions which depend entirely on unix >> hackery are not really an option. The staff who will maintain this are good >> noc/operations stock -- in the old-world "operations" sense, not in the >> "systems/network engineering" sense I keep seeing on recent job >> advertisements. Integration with Unix/Linux is awesome, a black box product >> which boots Linux/*BSD kernel is fine, but the "black box" part is fairly >> crucial. >> >> Cameras already exist, we're just looking at the concentrator/storage >> options. >> >> -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : net philanthropy to improve open source and internet projects. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
