[TriLUG] new project: networked video cameras

[Greg Brown]

> 
> 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.

Oh yeah, looking at your mpg it is the same thing.

> 
> 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.

How'd you do that?  Convert the jpgs to mpg I mean.  What software did you use?

Greg

> 
> 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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