I've recently been experimanting with zoneminder. It's a very good bit
of software once setup, you might have a few install issues though.
On 11/07/07, Jonathan Hudson <jh+hlug@???> wrote:
> 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.
>
> -jonathan
>
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