[TriLUG] new project: networked video cameras

[Pat Regan]

Greg Brown wrote:
> Okay.  I have a new project.  I have been testing motion, the
> linux-based motion detection and capture software, this week using an
> Axis 206 network camera.  It works great.  Motion appears to ship with
> some mysql (and posgresql) hooks that look promising (though they
> require a rebuild of the software, no big deal).
> 
> But now I am stuck looking for a good looking front-end for the
> database.  I haven't located one on sourceforge and I don't mind
> building one, but a nice pre-packaged GPL PHP package would be idea
> due to time constraints.  Has anyone heard of such a beast?
> 
> Greg

If "Motion" is what I believe it is, I set it up a few years ago.  This
is from memory, as I do not have access to the system.

I set it up to drop jpegs into a directory as fast as it could, which
was slow but it was exactly what we wanted.  I had a cron job run every
X minutes and convert the jpeg files to an mpeg movie and delete the
jpegs.  The mpegs were dated and stored in another web accessible
directory.  It worked quite well.

I still have one of the early test videos up on my web site:

www.patshead.com/movies/tram-and-stuff.mpg

That was the view out my office window, and it was a real mpeg generated
by the system.  It started "recording" when the tram cam into view, and
stopped when it was gone.  It is only a handful of frames, but it was
perfect for our purposes.

Pat
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