[plug] open source video (burglar) surveillance

Denis Brown dsbrown at cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Thu Sep 25 10:06:03 WST 2003


At 09:20 25/09/2003 +0800, Trevor Philips wrote:
>On Wednesday 24 September 2003 23:06, 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

<snip>

>Here's a sample output mpg (681k) from October 2001:
>    http://jurai.murdoch.edu.au/temp/172414.mpg
>
>If you watch the time log, you'll notice gaps - it didn't record frames when
>no-one was moving on camera. It's also not exactly real-time playback footage
>- was possibly more like 20fps than 30. ^_^

I dips me lid!   Good stuff, Trevor, thanks.  Looks like the motion package 
and a few dollars for a webcam as a contribution from this particular 
parent, anyway :-)   Pity you didn't get to set it up in the server room :-(

Cheers,
Denis


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