followup to my inquiry: An approach to security surveilliance is to use projects already maturing for recording television shows, DVR, digital video recorders, and implement a web interface.
This port looks interesting: FFmpeg is a collection of free software that can record, convert and stream digital audio and video. http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/ And for a cms website to use it, a module for drupal that may be workable: "The Media Mover module is a module which allows admins to setup a media move process which gathers files, processes them and stores them. Media Mover does little on its own- it calls a set of modules which implement the media_mover hook and plugs them together in to media mover scripts." http://drupal.org/project/media_mover Trying the above will have to wait for someother pending jobs, but if it is very promising on an OpenBSD platform, I'll report. Further digression for the misc openbsd list may be off subject. I will research this more with FFmpeg and Drupal lists/forums. p.s. thanks for the reply Joachim, it helped to see some of the posting by Feustel.
