From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 23 16:24:39 2002 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 7031737B406 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:24:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.livens.net (213-193-182-74.adsl.easynet.be [213.193.182.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E77A43E6E for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:24:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wim@localhost.livens.net) Received: (from wim@localhost) by localhost.livens.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) id g9NNPAA04154 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 01:25:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wim) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 01:22:27 +0200 From: Wim Livens To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Security camera Message-ID: <20021023232226.GA3266@krijt.livens.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i 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 I have a brooktree video capture card and a camera. I want to use this as a security camera for my house. Can anyone recommend any tools ? Fxtv seems not practical for such long duration recording. I currently capture the frames with a simple script that takes a picture every 5 seconds or so and saves it as separate jpeg files. Then I scan through them manually using xzgv. But there must be a better way. Is there a way to compare two images and measuring how much they differ ? If so, I can drop all frames that don't differ significantly. Any other ideas ? Thanks, -- Wim Livens. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message