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== The software ==
== The software ==


[http://www.zoneminder.com/ Zoneminder] is web - based and very complicated.
Cheese and VLC are two of my favorites for testing the camera to confirm it works.


Lots to install before we can build on Ubuntu 11.04 --
ffmpeg is supposed to be good too.
I wonder what it does with all this stuff. Must be impressive.


[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

Revision as of 02:42, 8 September 2011

The camera

Logitech HD Pro Webcam C910

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.

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