From: Stuart Henderson (stuspacehopper.org)
Date: Sun Nov 02 2008 - 08:52:58 CST

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On 2008-11-02, Brian Keefer <chortsmtps.net> wrote:
> On Nov 1, 2008, at 10:21 PM, Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:28:34 -0700
>> Brian Keefer <chortsmtps.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm finally getting around to starting my project to build a home-
>>> monitoring system. I'm going to need multiple capture devices inside
>>> the home, and at least one outside as well. I'm looking for
>>> recommendations on a video capture card, and wireless video cameras.
>>> I don't mind spending > $100 US per cam if it's worth it.
>>>
>>
>> Unless you have a good reason not to, use "WebCams" that implement
>> an http(s) server on camera.
>>
>> The use of a standard protocol makes life much easier.
>>
>> Dhu
>
> I was under the impression that the quality would be bad and/or they
> would require a proprietary client application that only runs on
> Windows, etc... Am I mistaken? If the cam has it's own webserver, is
> it simply serving static frames ever x seconds, or streams video as
> well?

look at the Axis cameras.

> Sorry for the basic questions, but I hadn't even considered that
> approach. I was planning on using bktr(4) with capture cards and
> cameras with coax/rca/s-video out.

that may also be possible, but afaik it's mostly used for watching
tv, at least the manual page doesn't talk about the multi-input
cards you'd probably want to use.

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