Re: Security camera management software
Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> writes:
> Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org> writes:
>
>> A friend of mine recently asked me if any decent software exists for
>> Linux for managing security cameras. He intends to setup up 6 or 7
>> cameras, and wants to be able to manage them from a MacOS X box.
>
> Seriously? Or is this a toy project?
It's for a home business of sorts (a 24-hour car wash located on their
property but not visible from the house). So yeah, it's serious, but
not something he wants to dump a ton of money into.
> Having used security cameras as part of my job, I can safely say that
> every digital camera system blows balls. If you want usable footage,
> go analog for this project. Whoever has to look at the footage for
> some minute detail will thank you for it.
What about using analog cameras through a capture card? Would that be
good enough quality?
Also, what kind of minute detail are you talking about? I'm sure he'd
like to be able to recognize faces, but I'm not sure he'd need more
detail than that.
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