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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/



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