Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:22:17 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: watching home via Internet Message-ID: <20111229172217.GB89588@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <20111229150207.GA1729@tiny> References: <20111229150207.GA1729@tiny>
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On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 04:02:08PM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Hello, > > I'd like to watch via Internet what is going on in my house, for example > when I go out with my wife for dinner to be sure that the two little children > are safe and sleeping, i.e. nobody plays with matches in the living > room :-) > > I have some FreeBSD laptops at home, with a cam I could direct to > monitor the area; I could do SSH from my netbook (runs FreeBSD 10) > with X11 forwarding and launch pwcview(1); but what about audio? > the cam has a micro too, which captures very good the audio in the room; too much bandwidth, the video would travel uncompressed. you are better off running skype or a videophone app on the remote system (ignore the display) and receive the compressed stream with another skype/vidphone. there is a nice phone app called 'baresip' which also does video and has a command line interface, see http://www.creytiv.com/baresip.html cheers luigi
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