On Nov 1, 2008, at 10:21 PM, Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote:
On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:28:34 -0700
Brian Keefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm finally getting around to starting my project to build a home-
monitoring system. I'm going to need multiple capture devices inside
the home, and at least one outside as well. I'm looking for
recommendations on a video capture card, and wireless video cameras.
I don't mind spending > $100 US per cam if it's worth it.
Unless you have a good reason not to, use "WebCams" that implement
an http(s) server on camera.
The use of a standard protocol makes life much easier.
Dhu
I was under the impression that the quality would be bad and/or they
would require a proprietary client application that only runs on
Windows, etc... Am I mistaken? If the cam has it's own webserver, is
it simply serving static frames ever x seconds, or streams video as
well?
Sorry for the basic questions, but I hadn't even considered that
approach. I was planning on using bktr(4) with capture cards and
cameras with coax/rca/s-video out.
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bk
