Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:35:51 -0400 From: grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Webcam recommendations Message-ID: <AANLkTimBAQpnLDb1oHKibHOfb=LMrJkxe1aFOf844gge@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi. I know nothing about the current state of webcams :) Over 10yr ago I had a composite cam and bt848 capture card. I figure USB is the standard these days. Something from the typical places: BestBuy, MicroCenter, etc. My use case is 24x7 room/security recording, audio, and low light/IR boost. And camming with people over a decent net with say 384-512k speeds. I doubt my other net with up to 5s lag and 128k or so would be usable. I figure USB cams are commodity these days. But if there's some obvious gotchas with FreeBSD to look out for when buying, I'd appreciate knowing. And of course if there's a brand/line that is well supported and 'just works great', that would make life easy :) I'm better at sifting through software so I should be ok there. I'll need encrypted streams and Windows interop, a few packages seem to do that. Though more work, I can always use IPSEC/OpenVPN. The only thing I don't know about is what software would let me do the security monitoring thing and ignore all but frames that have motion in them? Maybe that's a program feature of the cam itself? Because disk space and time to scan idle periods for events isn't cheap. Hopefully this thread will serve to help others too :) Thanks.
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