----- Forwarded by Richard Meyer/Australia/Contr/IBM on 26/11/2003 11:06 AM
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Onno Benschop
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Sent by: Subject: Re: [plug] Linux webcam / camera
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26/11/2003 10:50
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Please respond to
plug
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 13:20, Richard Meyer wrote:
>> 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.
>motion?
That's how I read it. You could take an image as displayed and with a few
mouse movements tell it to check for motion only in (say) the top left
corner, and centre right, ignoring the potplants blowing in the breeze
elsewhere.
RichardM
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