[TriLUG] new project: networked video cameras

[Jeff Groves]

gallery almost seems to fit the bill, but not completely....

Jeff G.

Greg Brown wrote:

>On 7/21/05, Shane O'Donnell <shaneodonnell at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>What do you mean by "front-end for the database"?
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>>DB administration?  Or GUI to present your pix, which you're storing
>>in a database?
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>>BTW - the whole "pics in a database" isn't making a lot of sense to
>>me, but hey -- your goofy project #45798...
>>
>>Shane O.
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>Yes, I have had my share of odd projects.  Okay, here is a bit more
>detail (I'll blame the incoherence of my first post on me 1/2
>listening to a conference call while typing).
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>The pictures themselves will not be going in database but they will be
>stored on the drive.  Information about the picture, time of photo,
>picture name, etc will be stored in a table on the database for easy
>look, sorting, etc.
>
>The "front end" I am looking for is not the PHP front-end rather, as
>Shane put it, a GUI to present the pictures.
>
>Axis has a product for this
>(http://www.axis.com/products/cam_rec_software/index.htm) but it only
>runs on Windows and costs over $600.00 (truly not much for a company,
>but this could be recreated for much less money).  Axis also has a
>video server, but it is costly as well.
>
>So, in the end, I would like to use Linux/Motion/PHP/Apache/Mysql
>(LAMMP, I suppose) with video incoming from several cameras.  The
>missing ingredient at this point is the PHP application to display and
>sort through the photos.
>
>Greg
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