From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 28 13:22:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BFD837B425 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 13:22:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dg@localhost) by root.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id fBSLCZH44907; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 13:12:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dg) Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 13:12:35 -0800 From: David Greenman To: Nick Barnes Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD for home security cameras? Message-ID: <20011228131235.B44808@nexus.root.com> References: <70661.1009571206@thrush.ravenbrook.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <70661.1009571206@thrush.ravenbrook.com>; from Nick.Barnes@pobox.com on Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 08:26:46PM +0000 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 >My house was burgled just before Christmas. Next time this happens, >it would be satisfying to present the police with pictures of the >villains in the act of carting off our TV in our wheelbarrow, or >ransacking our CD collection. I'm thinking a few cheapo cameras, >inside and out, hooked up to a server in an inaccessible spot >(e.g. the attic) or off-site, after I get a cable modem. I would >prefer FreeBSD on the server. What's the economic way of building a >system like this? You know, I've been thinking about doing something very similar. I haven't really looked into this much yet, but it seems like one could use a video capture card like the Hauppauge WinTV along with the ports/graphics/fxtv software. It looks like fxtv could use some modifications, however, such as a way to reduce the framerate, to make it more suitable for surveillance applications. I'm not sure how well this would work with multiple WinTV cards and cameras, nor do I know how much disk space this is going to eat...but even having the last few hours of video would be useful. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message