From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 19 2:12:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E237314E74 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 02:12:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id FAA17148; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 05:18:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 05:18:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Ben Pepa Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multiple webcams In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Ben Pepa wrote: > Hi, > > The company I work for is looking to have 4 webcams in various parts of > our facilities. We currently run FreeBSD boxes for servers and is there > a way to hook them up to my server. > > QuickCam's are probably not going to work because the cameras are going > to be 20-30 feet away from the servers, so would there be a video capture > card solutions that supports FreeBSD that could use ordinary NTSC camera's > and stream the images over the internet? > > If anyone has any experience with webcams, I'd be very interested to > talking to you. I'm not exactly a "web-cam kind of guy" :) however, I do know that my brooktree based card is wicked cool, it takes various video in, and captures at a very nice framerate: http://www.hauppage.com/ you'll want to look at the "fxtv" port in /usr/ports enjoy, -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|bright@wintelcom.net] systems administrator and programmer Wintelcom - http://www.wintelcom.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message