On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 14:26, Desmond Lloyd wrote:
> Quiet in your neck of the woods aye?
Nah, I just get my hands into everything ;)
The webcams echoed my life: I played with the stuff, and all of a
sudden it became useful for creating a web based security system ;)
Except I had to hack-up: http://www.havokmon.com/stuff/multiout2.c
Because of the cheap capture card ;)
I did that two years ago...it's built into the motion software now, but
I had some guys in Texas using my hack for their customers <vbg>
Rick
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> >From: Rick Romero <rick (at) valeoinc D.O.T com>
> >Reply-To: ProFox Email List <profox@leafe.com>
> >To: ProFox Email List <profox (at) leafe D.O.T com>
> >Subject: Re: [NF] Webcams - how good? Brand/model/software?
> >Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 13:54:55 -0600
> >
> >On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 13:34, Rick Romero wrote:
> > > > Is there a minimum CPU/memory or OS that all participants should have
> > > > in place, i.e. something along the lines of 1G/256M/XP?
> > >
> > > That should be fine. You need a decent CPU, no Celerons.
> >
> >Heh.. Stay away from multiple USB webcams:
> >
> >2003-12-30 13:25:45 [mainloop] Closing socket: 167.100.118.222
> >2003-12-30 13:25:45 [mainloop] Accepted new socket: 66.31.253.217
> >2003-12-30 13:25:46 [v4l] Sync alarm called!
> >2003-12-30 13:25:56 [mainloop] Closing socket: 66.31.253.217
> >2003-12-30 13:25:56 [mainloop] Accepted new socket: 66.31.253.217
> >2003-12-30 13:25:58 [v4l] Sync alarm called!
> >2003-12-30 13:26:02 [mainloop] Closing socket: 66.31.253.217
> >2003-12-30 13:26:02 [mainloop] Accepted new socket: 66.31.253.217
> >
> >Those sync alarms is where the bus isn't keeping up with the software :(
> >
> >FWIW
> >I do have 3 security cameras doing streaming and motion detection on a
> >PII-300
> >with 128MB on it. But that's Linux, and that's all it does - it's also not
> >USB cameras, I have a 4 port BTTV capture card. I discard two frames
> >switching
> >between inputs (it was a cheap card:( ), otherwise I get about 6 fps per
> >camera.
> >So about 24fps total at 320x200.
> >
> >It's not outside accessible, but here's a screenshot:
> >http://www.havokmon.com/stuff/valeocams.jpg
> >
> >Those 3 are all streaming 'simultaneously' (like switching channels REALLY
> >fast).
> >
> >Rick
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> >
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