On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 5:59 AM, Brian Keefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 1, 2008, at 10:21 PM, Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote: > >> On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:28:34 -0700 >> Brian Keefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I'm finally getting around to starting my project to build a home- >>> monitoring system. I'm going to need multiple capture devices inside >>> the home, and at least one outside as well. I'm looking for >>> recommendations on a video capture card, and wireless video cameras. >>> I don't mind spending > $100 US per cam if it's worth it. >>> >> >> Unless you have a good reason not to, use "WebCams" that implement >> an http(s) server on camera. >> >> The use of a standard protocol makes life much easier. >> >> Dhu > > I was under the impression that the quality would be bad and/or they would > require a proprietary client application that only runs on Windows, etc... > Am I mistaken? If the cam has it's own webserver, is it simply serving > static frames ever x seconds, or streams video as well? > > Sorry for the basic questions, but I hadn't even considered that approach. > I was planning on using bktr(4) with capture cards and cameras with > coax/rca/s-video out. > > -- > bk > >
I am looking into this also, there is linux friendly usb to rca devices which sit on the computer via usb port. You connect rca cams to usb device then have a software application which controls/monitors the video input. hope this helps
