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Grant <emailgrant <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> I've been using motion along with USB cameras for a while. I need to |
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> expand my monitoring capacity and I'm wondering if I should consider |
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> changing software or hardware. motion seems fairly dead but is |
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> stable. I'm reading conflicting info about the current status of |
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> zoneminder. Is anyone using IP cams? |
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Hello Grant, |
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I've not kept up with the last few years, but here is what I did |
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before that. IP (h.264 over tcp/ip/udp) is a random matrix if which |
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vendors cameras work with which vendors dvr. A dvr is a decoder box |
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with a hard drive. You then connect your web browser to the DVR where |
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the managerie of IP cams store the video. IT SUCKS for open source. |
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Some vendors will give you binaries or have pre-compiled binaries |
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(an API they call it) to load onto your Linux system (red hat or such), |
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but those are often clunky and annoying, at best. The industry |
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is still beholden to Microsoft and the MPLA.......... |
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ZONEMINDER is a difficult read. It would not have been that difficult |
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to add support for H.264 (Mpeg-HVC) but most of the folks that developed |
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that deep knowledge headed for BIG PAYCHECKS and the proprietary |
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buggy..... |
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If you find some open source minded developers, willing to fork zoneminder, |
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let me know and I'll contribute as I can.... I'm sorry the news is |
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not better; in fact there could be another project out there that |
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I'm not aware of, as I've been in other spaces for the last few years. |
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The best contact I can give you is Andrey Filippov. He is a hardware |
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designer that buids (use to?) an open source hardware camera that |
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does amazing things. He will know software developers still active |
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in the space and folks that may have an open source H.264 solution. |
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http://wwww.elphel.com |
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Google has an open source video solution (can't recall the name, VP8?) that |
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is suppose to be better than H.264 and open source, so search it out! |
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http://gigaom.com/2013/10/30/google-sticks-with-vp8-opposes-ciscos-push-for-h-264/ |
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http://www.webmproject.org/license/bitstream/ |
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Regardless of which way you go, learn about MPLA, cause the SUE the shit |
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out of grade school kids for touching video..... |
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Do post back what you learn? |
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hth, |
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James |
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