Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:04:30 -0800 (PST) From: Robert Kopp <iconoklastic@yahoo.com> To: FreeBSD Multimedia <freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: watching home via Internet Message-ID: <1325181870.26356.YahooMailNeo@web120803.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20111229172217.GB89588@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> References: <20111229150207.GA1729@tiny> <20111229172217.GB89588@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
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I use an IP Webcam with a built-in server (usually Linux) for this purpose. Some may find this an adequate solution, and not have to resolve driver problems, etc. Robert "Tim" Kopp http://analytic.tripod.com/ >________________________________ > From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> >To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> >Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org >Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 9:22 AM >Subject: Re: watching home via Internet > >On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 04:02:08PM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I'd like to watch via Internet what is going on in my house, for example >> when I go out with my wife for dinner to be sure that the two little children >> are safe and sleeping, i.e. nobody plays with matches in the living >> room :-) >> >> I have some FreeBSD laptops at home, with a cam I could direct to >> monitor the area; I could do SSH from my netbook (runs FreeBSD 10) >> with X11 forwarding and launch pwcview(1); but what about audio? >> the cam has a micro too, which captures very good the audio in the room; > >too much bandwidth, the video would travel uncompressed. >you are better off running skype or >a videophone app on the remote system (ignore the display) >and receive the compressed stream with another skype/vidphone. > >there is a nice phone app called 'baresip' which also >does video and has a command line interface, see > >http://www.creytiv.com/baresip.html > >cheers >luigi >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-multimedia >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-multimedia-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >
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