Author: Jonathan Hudson Date: To: hampshire Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Linux CCTV
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:40:07 +0100 (BST)
"Damian Brasher" <lug@???> wrote:
> Philip Stubbs wrote:
> > There is a program called "motion" that will do this. It will only
> > log when it sees motion, and can even generate a time lapse avi
> > file.
>
> I wondered about that for a simple indoors usb webcam - however the camera
> from Wickes is water proof, has a very long cable and a built in motion
> sensor. It may help to use both, I'll try.
Motion works fine for my squirrel-cam (but largely redundant as the
squirrels appear to be defeated by the current fiendish bird feeding
arrangement).
> Which leads me to thinking about a command line tool that will covert a
> bunch of jpegs into and avi or other video file.
motion can be set to record an AVI for a set period on detection of
motion (i.e. 'm' secs prior to 'n' secs post detection), or you can
use mencoder or ffmeg to do the job.
