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== The software == | == The software == | ||
Cheese and VLC are two of my favorites for testing the camera to confirm it works. | |||
ffmpeg is supposed to be good too. | |||
Motion is supposed to do what I want - monitor a camera for movement and record movies if it sees something. | |||
[http://www.zoneminder.com/ Zoneminder] is web - based and very complicated. | |||
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg libmp3lame-dev libjpeg8-dev libavcodec-dev | sudo apt-get install ffmpeg libmp3lame-dev libjpeg8-dev libavcodec-dev | ||
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-mysql mysql-client apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mysql | sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-mysql mysql-client apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mysql | ||
sudo apt-get install zoneminder | sudo apt-get install zoneminder | ||
Latest revision as of 02:50, 8 September 2011
The camera
Shows up as
[ 392.407890] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device <unnamed> (046d:0821) [ 392.420616] input: UVC Camera (046d:0821) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/u
sb1/1-3/1-3.1/1-3.1:1.2/input/input6
/dev/video0
The software
Cheese and VLC are two of my favorites for testing the camera to confirm it works.
ffmpeg is supposed to be good too.
Motion is supposed to do what I want - monitor a camera for movement and record movies if it sees something.
Zoneminder is web - based and very complicated.
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg libmp3lame-dev libjpeg8-dev libavcodec-dev sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-mysql mysql-client apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mysql sudo apt-get install zoneminder
