On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 14:52:58 +0000 (UTC) Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. > Yes, this http://www.axis.com/products/cam_207w/index.htm is the sort of thing I was talking about. Dhu > > 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.
