[CentOS] security cameras

Wed Feb 23 14:21:49 UTC 2011
Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at SoftDux.com>

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
>
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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.

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Rudi Ahlers
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