Question:
I was wondering about what experience other debian users have with
setting up a video surveillance camera and recording. Here's the thing:
Our company owns this office building. We want to put a camera on each
parking lot. Right now they are looking at a Toshiba web cam. Anyhow,
the point is that this camera will be transmitting either constantly or
I guess when awakened by motion. So, here's my question. They want a
system to be able to record any activity when the motion sensor detects
any activity. What role can a linux server play in this? As I see it,
the server should know to start archiving any information either when
the camera is turned on by motion, or when the motion sensor detects
any activity. This information should then be either accessible on a
disk or moved to a video tape. I would really appreciate any advice
people can provide. Can you show me the correct way to buy and use
Camera De Video Surveillance?
Answer:The motion package will take an jpg from a camera whenever it detects
motion. You can control the # of pictures per second. It's easy.
You can also have it take a picture every n seconds regardless of
motion. I use this with mencoder to convert the jpgs into a soundless mpeg.
I control the frames-per-second so that I can watch six hours of time
lapse in about 90 seconds. When I leave my apartment, I come back and watch the timelapse of the
entire time and make sure nobody came in. If I need more detail I
single-step the video or go to the jpegs.
