Thanks about the USB tip. I’m trying to concatenate automatically, however. We have many Arlo cameras where we CAN connect to the internet. Otherwise, you’re right, we could just use a trail cam but the time someone would need to be spending going through assembling videos would not be worth it.
Any programmers I can contact? Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 22, 2022, at 7:46 PM, Adam Nielsen via ffmpeg-user > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> >> I need help in trying to develop a security camera for a remote >> area of a farm. There is no internet in some places there and some of >> the motion videos may be long, e.g., 20 to 30 minutes. >> >> So, I would like to be able to record these longer motion videos on >> a Raspberry Pi locally, concatenate them and then be able to somehow >> quickly review the compilation/concatenated video on a video player and >> then download the snippet(s) of video to a smart phone. > > You're going to have to do a fair bit of programming/scripting to get > this I suspect, as I don't think there's anything around that can do > this out of the box on a Pi. > > However, since you won't want to use an SD card for this (as writing > all the video will kill the SD card very quickly) you'll probably need > to use a USB external hard drive. In this case you could just buy two, > and swap them over when you visit the camera. Then back on another > computer you can flick through the video on the USB hard drive. > >> 1. Recording motion using Motion or MotionEyes to a particular >> directory for the day, >> 2. Then using FFMpeg to possibly automatically concatenate the >> videos in that directory into one bigger file, and >> 3. Then using a video player to scroll through the video and >> download a particular segment to my iPhone. > > Have you considered using a game camera instead of a Raspberry Pi? They > have motion sensors built in, they'll capture video of the motion, and > save each event as a different video file. Then you can visit it, swap > over the memory card, and watch all the videos on any device you can > plug the card into (even a smartphone if you have a card reader for > it). They run off batteries and include infrared lights to capture > video at night, so they are well suited for remote areas where you > don't need a live video feed. > > The only real benefit of using the Pi would be that you get > Ethernet/WiFi on it for remote access/live video, but if you won't be > using that because it's too far away from a WiFi network and you don't > want to use WiFi extenders or dig a cable, using a game camera will > probably save you a huge amount of effort. > > Cheers, > Adam. > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user > > To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email > [email protected] with subject "unsubscribe". _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list [email protected] https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email [email protected] with subject "unsubscribe".
