Try ZoneMinder, it works great for both v4l and ip camera sources; you
must get the camera's best urls though, google helped me on that. I
have both a linksys and a d-link going. I staged my ZM in vmware,
will be migrating to a dedicated atom nettop next week. :)
Maybe we could do a demo, Allen?
Ben
On May 2, 2009, at 4:02 PM, "Allen Brown" <[email protected]> wrote:
I think it is working now.
First I had to find the way to get jpegs from the camera.
My luck I found a reference to this on the web:
http://cam_driveway1/img/video.mjpeg
Only that gave a complaint about Invalid URL. After staring at
the source code for about an hour it suddenly hit me that the
"motion" source code couldn't handle the underscore character
in the url. Changing the camera device to cam-driveway1 made
it work.
--
Allen Brown abrown at peak.org http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/
Anti-intellectual: Never trust anyone with an IQ over 30.
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.
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