Tom Sharples wrote: > Hello, > > We're trying to figure out a low-cost way to simultaneously display > the outputs of up to four different brands (e.g. Axis, Sony, Bosch, > etc) of IP cams on a single LCD flatpanel attached to an x-86 Linux > workstation. This platform can be anything handy like e.g. a low-end > Dell or HP. Each IP cam has an embedded web server that allows you to > surf to its IP and see live video, but the underlying mechanisms are > very different from one brand to the next. Some require you to > download a resource-hungry Java or active-X blob, others merely > execute in-line javascript or "streaming ftp", and yet others require > a multi-step interactive series of key and mouse clicks to get to a > live video screen. > > One way to handle this might be using e.g. curl scripts to deal with > the preliminaries, and then opening up four individual browser > instances, one for each cam, and assigning their video outputs to one > of four quadrants of the screen. But this seems pretty clunky and > likely to severely bog down system resources and cause random > crashes. Does anyone here have suggestions for a better way to do > this?
Check out ZoneMinder: http://www.zoneminder.com/ I've played with it a little bit. It's somewhat of a pain to set up but it promises to be an extremely flexible solution. Scott -- Scott Garman sgarman at zenlinux dot com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
