[wellylug] Video Capture device

[Nigel Roberts]

Well, for a start you won't be able to use more than one of the inputs
at a time. You'll need one card per camera, or you'll need to cycle
through them.

You could use an application such as camsource (blatant plug, I wrote
the autobrightness feature for it): http://camsource.sf.net. It's not
being as well maintained these days. I think there's other
applications out there that are specifically designed for this type of
thing, maybe http://www.zoneminder.com/ ?

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 at 15:02:49 +1200, Chris Hodgetts wrote:

> I have a Video Capture device, bttv , anyway, this is a module in the
> kernel and works well..
> 
> I have 4 input devices with the card, and XawTV sees them as 
> 
> 1, Television
> 2, Composite 1
> 3, S-Video
> 4, Composite 3
> 
> Each of these selections displays within XawTV the device that is
> attached to that plug.
> 
> Anyway, what I want to know is, with these 4 capture devices, work wants
> to use them for Video Surveillance,  
> 
> Originally it was on a windows box, but the software was crap to say the
> least (Not Window, well Yes windows, but the application they used to
> capture the images)
> 
> Anyway, I want to be able to stream them if I can, but also record any
> changes in motion so, stream 24/7 and record to a avi or something when
> motion is detected and e-mail an alert..  and rotate the logs after x
> ammount of days, but this needs to happen per channel input..
> 
> they dont ask for much ay ;0
> 
> Anyway, any thoughts and ideas would be helpful! :)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
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