From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 17 21:35:52 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D23C2106566B for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:35:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grarpamp@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 905A28FC14 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:35:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws18 with SMTP id 18so3551740vws.13 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:35:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=i9JjompMhUq2lGHe9JtHpFRLcCX2S0o8nFEwvDU6XGE=; b=wXNzuK+GFqIScWuRuflvsFORFZTIZ34d/AAfTrGQMYcrnZBWNZ3NNoPBTU/MSapfAk Ulb5xnX8Lk5e8hjvxvQNks/5ddVMfIxOOHjHHkRzuFvsite8zlF/61ROsiOERt1IFZb4 Cs7PDB+deu+jb/qO5xjV6QoHnfx4qSxe7I2Fg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=ORaIvh+WR9xr8PbY4xOOiYH9kYfFfQ8NwN37rYjtqLR7HxLbHraD2VAdCdhC+s02h7 mTl6uhRfuItIydGMDmCGCEgb/yXUTW3JauHQ/larQ31TwhSczMh63jwVjOIEr+eRnx/S 4qvxucY4sxA2AzBxGKZZhrDZV2pCLiJPjG76Q= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.68.137 with SMTP id w9mr377953vdt.84.1300397751575; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:35:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.183.66 with HTTP; Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:35:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:35:51 -0400 Message-ID: From: grarpamp To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Webcam recommendations X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:35:52 -0000 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.