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/DirectShow
You 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,
❧ Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:33 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> Arun Khan wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 8:10 PM, <m.roth at 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.
>
> mark
>
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