quote who=Ben Donohue
Has anyone had any experience with web-cams+video recorders+time lapse using
Linux as the server?
You may wish to investigate 'motion':
motion uses a video4linux device for detecting movement. It makes snapshots
of the movement which later will be converted to MPEG
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 10:21:19PM +1000, Chris Barnes wrote:
I have a Logitech Quickcam Web...i found linux drivers for it but the
software isn't too fancy...it just opens an xwindow and displays the camera
output, if you know how to alter the code you could have it send the output
to a
I have a Logitech Quickcam Web...i found linux drivers for it but the
software isn't too fancy...it just opens an xwindow and displays the camera
output, if you know how to alter the code you could have it send the output
to a file instead...e.g. by using libjpg or something, have it dump to a
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 10:21:19PM +1000, Chris Barnes ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
I have a Logitech Quickcam Web...i found linux drivers for it but the
software isn't too fancy...it just opens an xwindow and displays the camera
output, if you know how to alter the code you could have it send
Brilliant!
still... it might take a bit of processing power?
i'll add that to the project, but it's way down the list of essentials.
for an outside camera you could possibly map out the areas that should not
change and exclude large areas with trees etc from the calculations. then do
the calcs
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 12:51:32PM +1000, Ben Donohue
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Brilliant!
still... it might take a bit of processing power?
Not really.
Considering that a camera produces bitmaps of 640x480 you only have to
calculate 307200 pixels
If you worried about that just write a
Ben Donohue wrote:
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Has anyone had any experience with web-cams+video recorders+time lapse using
Linux as the server?
Search the slug archives.
http://www.woa.com.au/linux/how-tos/webcaminstall.html has notes on all
this (although a bit dated). Look at the bit about Nemesis
