From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 27 8:46:28 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44BBC37B401 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:46:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com (h24-76-91-242.vc.shawcable.net [24.76.91.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3CEF43F5F for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:46:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aardvark@hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com) Received: from hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h0RGfB6Z016522; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:41:12 -0800 Received: (from aardvark@localhost) by hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id h0RGf96n016520; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:41:09 -0800 Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:41:09 -0800 From: Saint Aardvark the Carpeted To: fozekizer@attbi.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd as platform for video security? Message-ID: <20030127164109.GA16487@hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com> References: <20030127155744.0EAB343E4A@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030127155744.0EAB343E4A@mx1.FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The company I work for has done something like this for a local construction company. Basically, we set up a modest (P-200, if I recall correctly, maybe 64 MB of RAM) FreeBSD machine with a webcam and a video capture card (Happauge-based, I believe) to take pictures of a site they were building. Cron was used to take a picture every fifteen minutes, dial up another computer (also FreeBSD-based), and upload it; once there, it was merged with other pictures into movie files, made available in an archive, etc. Sorry to be vague on the details -- I had to rebuild the box once, so I wasn't involved in software choices, etc. (The ImageMagick tools would probably be a good starting point for merging pictures.) My point is that we did the job pretty well with modest equipment, so I think that, at least for time-lapse pictures, it is definitely possible to do what you're after. Oh, one other thing -- I do remember fooling around with capture utilities that basically acted as a web server: every time you connected to the machine, it would capture a picture and send it back. That might be useful to you. I can't remember the name of the program, but maybe someone else can help me out. Hope this helps, Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted aardvark@saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message