Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 05:18:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Ben Pepa <bpepa@gateway.nwss.sd40.bc.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multiple webcams Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990819051553.20420I-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9908190203060.87726-100000@gateway.nwss.sd40.bc.ca>
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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
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