On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 4:12 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Always Learning <centos at g7.u22.net> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 18:04 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: >>> >>>> TCP/IP cameras would work with any OS, most just FTP or whatever the >>>> pictures to a webserver you provide, or they run their own server and >>>> you can wget the pics off them. but I've never seen any IP cameras >>>> I'd call really cheap. Panasonic makes a nice line of them, some even >>>> have remote pan/zoom via a http interface. > <snip> >> If you want a full-blown remote TCP monitoring system, look at Axis. >> They're historically very Linux compatible, they have all the features >> you might want, and while they're not cheap they have all the features >> you might need. > > At work, we use the package motion. Does everything, including writing > .avi? .asf? files to the home directory which is nsf mounted. Trivial load > on the network for monitoring. > > We've got *really* cheap old webcams. Do see if you can get USB 1.1, not > 1.0.... > > mark > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > I've been following this thread closely, and am interested in setting up some surveillance in the office using Linux as well. What open source software can I use for large streams, like upto 256 on Linux? We currently use Indigo, which is super expensive and runs on Windows. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532