From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 27 7:57:45 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 835D837B401 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 07:57:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EAB343E4A for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 07:57:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fozekizer@attbi.com) Received: from rwcrwbc70 ([204.127.198.53]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52) with SMTP id <2003012715574305200gatjpe>; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:57:43 +0000 Received: from [4.60.254.198] by rwcrwbc70; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:57:41 +0000 From: fozekizer@attbi.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: freebsd as platform for video security? Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:57:41 +0000 X-Mailer: AT&T Message Center Version 1 (Nov 5 2002) X-Authenticated-Sender: Zm96ZWtpemVyQGF0dGJpLmNvbQ== Message-Id: <20030127155744.0EAB343E4A@mx1.FreeBSD.org> 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 father wants to be able to watch his security cameras at his business remotely. I know it can be done...static IP, video capture, streaming video, etc...in Windoze but I DO NOT want to deal with MS at all. Does software exist for FreeBSD that would allow me to: 1. Monitor security camera footage online, either in real time or recorded 2. Switch among 4 different cameras or meld the images together in a 4-way split screen. And what kind of machine (at the most basic) does everyone think would be required to handle this sort of activity? Do you think I would be better off using BeOS or another OS? I mention BeOS because I know what it can handle, especially since it is extremely good when it comes to graphics and other usually memory intensive programming. Thanks in advance for any help. Charlie Pelletier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message