Re: [gentoo-user] OT: In search of a hint/ides: Loop recording of a webcam

2014-09-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 6 Sep 2014 17:56:33 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: As mentioned motion detection software is not appropiate for this, since it detects motion ... that is: The bird/s are already in sight...add the reaction time between bird is there and motion detection has recognized that there

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: In search of a hint/ides: Loop recording of a webcam

2014-09-07 Thread meino . cramer
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [14-09-07 10:28]: On Sat, 6 Sep 2014 17:56:33 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: As mentioned motion detection software is not appropiate for this, since it detects motion ... that is: The bird/s are already in sight...add the reaction time between bird

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: In search of a hint/ides: Loop recording of a webcam

2014-09-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 7 Sep 2014 18:22:58 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I got motion working As it seems, it does not support h264 compressed streams. It switches back the camera to YUVY, which increases the bandwidth on USB2. In turn the frame rate of the recorded video dropps: The video looks

[gentoo-user] OT: In search of a hint/ides: Loop recording of a webcam

2014-09-06 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, may be the software I am looking for already exists of can easily created by plugging together already existing pieces: With a Logitech c920 webcam (Full HD) I plan to record birds on my roof. I need to record everything: Starting from the birds landing on the roof until the fligh away

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: In search of a hint/ides: Loop recording of a webcam

2014-09-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 6 Sep 2014 14:59:34 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I already have a script hacked together with a gst-launch command, which is able to fetch the Full HD hardware encoded stream from the C920 and put it on the harddisk. But I failed in creating a script which allows me to

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: In search of a hint/ides: Loop recording of a webcam

2014-09-06 Thread meino . cramer
Hi Neil, Thanks for reply! :) As mentioned motion detection software is not appropiate for this, since it detects motion ... that is: The bird/s are already in sight...add the reaction time between bird is there and motion detection has recognized that there is a bird and all the false alarms

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: In search of a hint/ides: Loop recording of a webcam

2014-09-06 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 6 September 2014 14:59:34 CEST, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, may be the software I am looking for already exists of can easily created by plugging together already existing pieces: With a Logitech c920 webcam (Full HD) I plan to record birds on my roof. I need to record everything: Starting