On 2008-11-02, 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?
look at the Axis cameras. > 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. that may also be possible, but afaik it's mostly used for watching tv, at least the manual page doesn't talk about the multi-input cards you'd probably want to use.
