[plug] Linux webcam / camera

[Denis Brown]

At 10:20 26/11/2003 +0800, Richard Meyer wrote in part:

>Talking of that, there was an article in the November issue of Linux Format
>re a package whose name totally eludes me at the moment. Anyway this
>package allowed you to connect webcams to a linux box and only scan
>portions of the image for movement. The developer had used it to capture
>first the photos then the bodies of a bunch of scum who were breaking into
>garages in his street.

Would that be the motion project on sourceforge, perchance?   Sacha 
Schlegel wrote...

You probably came along http://motion.sourceforge.net/ a motion
detection tool. I played with it at home but did not have a real use for
it. Actually I would like to monitor who is stealing our eggs ;) We

...in the same thread - 24, 25 and 26 September if that helps your 
searching, Ben et al.   Chris Caston and Jay Turner also made contributions 
to the thread at that time.

HTH,
Denis



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