Re: Security camera management software
Have a look at Zoneminder (http://www.zoneminder.com/), a very nice
surveillance app for Linux. Linux Media Labs makes 4 & 8-port analog
capture cards that work with this app.
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 11:01:40AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote:
> 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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