I have a Linksys WVC54GCA camera. It connects to ethernet or WiFi. I can point to it with firefox or vlc and see a good moving image. It has configuration pages to email or ftp on detection of motion. That doesn't work. Perhaps it requires ActiveX. They say it does. Most of the web config doesn't require that. And there's no reason that config page should. So it goes.
I don't have a Windoze computer. I don't have ActiveX. Linux should be able to do this. There are web pages out there that talk about how to use "motion" with "ffserver" and "ffmpeg" to do this sort of capture. I've spent a full day trying various pages. They don't work. I only found one which actually talked about doing motion detection with this camera. http://www.infohit.net/blog/post/motion-capture-using-the-wvc54gc-with-linux.html The instructions for ffmpeg don't seem to work. When I run ffmpeg with the indicated options I get "I/O error occurred". Trying to debug this is black magic. It involves passing streams in and out of web portals on my computer. (I don't know why they couldn't have just used pipes. So much simpler.) Please note that I am talking about cameras that talk ethernet. Not USB. USB cameras need to have a computer within 5 meters. That's not very useful. Does anybody on this list have this sort of thing working? What documentation did you follow? -- Allen Brown abrown at peak.org http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ Cogito ergo spud - I think, therefore I yam. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
