On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:59 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Brian Mathis wrote:
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:33 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Arun Khan wrote:
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 8:10 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Does anyone know of a DVR that runs Linux that does NOT USE
Active-X, and/or allows logging in directly?
MythTV? It has a web UI.
No joy, either this, nor zoneminder. Right now, we just have motion
running on the servers that have the USB cameras plugged in; after the recent grief we had with the last upgrade to CentOS, when I wound up moving one camera that just would not work - the top 10% of the screen was fine, and the rest green, and the other I had to change the resolution to 240x360 to get it to not do that, my manager asked me to look into appliances that we could manage from our servers.
We've found Zmodo, and another one, but with *both* of them, though the
DVR that comes with the set is running Linux, web control *REQURES* IE, and you can't log in directly using ssh or telnet.
If the camera is running on Windows, you can probably stream directly
from the device using ffmpeg. See here for details:
http://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/DirectShowYou would set the input as the camera and the output as a file, and add
any codec options you want, etc...
I'm sure there's probably a similar mode for Linux. If nothing else,
you can probe the camera to see what modes it supports, etc..., to make sure you're picking one that works,
Ok, I *must* not have made clear what I was asking for. Let me try one more time....
We want an appliance, such as < http://www.zmodo.com/4ch-h-264-full-d1-dvr-500gb-hdd-with-4-cmos-480tvl-ir-o...
,
that we can put on our network, and manage, and d/l videos for long-term storage, onto a server. We have exactly, um, two? boxes running Windows, and we normally do *nothing* with them. We've over 100 servers running Linux, and that's where we live.
Currently, the USB cameras are connected to ->CENTOS SERVERS<-, no WinCrap at all. We use the standard package motion to record for surveillance. We're looking for an "appliance", like the link I give above, that we can manage the same way that we manage an HP printer, which does *NOT* require IE, and we can do with firefox, or probably even konqueror. At the very least, we want to use, say, wget, to d/l the videos.
NOTHING RUNNING WINDOWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now, if I can calm myself down, have I made it clear what it is we're looking for? If so, can anyone recommend a source for such an appliance?
mark
Hi Mark,
If you lay off the coffee for a minute and actually take a look at what people are suggesting, you'll see that ffmpeg is a standard, cross platform, very versatile (basically industry standard) tool for manipulating audio/video files, and it also has good support for capturing from devices. Frankly I had assumed that you had probably already heard of it. It's the swiss army knife of video, and it works perfectly well on Linux as well as Windows. I only mentioned Windows because that's where I had recently used it for device capture.
❧ Brian Mathis
P.S. Should I also point out how far off topic this is, since you seem to want some sort of appliance?