On Wednesday 24 December 2003 00:38, David J Patrick wrote:

GDHough wrote:

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On Monday 22 December 2003 11:08, David J Patrick wrote:

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Have you considered http://gspy.sourceforge.net/ ? gspy is designed for webcam based security and may offer fewer headaches

Maybe, let's see...

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YMMV djp

This looks worth a test run. I am curious as to how it builds the MPEG's. I would like a format playable on winboxes. The way I make the movies now will only work with mplayer on Linux. Example from man mencoder:

mencoder \*jpeg -mf on:fps=25 -o output.avi -ovc lavrc

...will put all the jpeg's in current directory into a single avi. Only thing is it isn't very 'seekable' (hourly only) I ain't sure yet how to use :vhq: and keyint= /etc.

The odds of me catching a bike thief are slim compared to the risk I might learn something useful about my Linuxes.

Thanks, farmer6re9

One of the cool things is that the image stream (video) is comprised of only those frames that were different from the previous frame (motion) resulting in surprisingly small files.

It's too bad webcam doesn't loop, it also has the option TRIGGER = 1 for image comparison.

One less-than-cool thing is the seeming inactivity of the app, with nothing in the changelog for over a year..

I won't have that problem with the puppy...

djp

Looking at this it is perfect for what I need. I just don't have the experience to build it. Even after I installed automake and autoconf it still poops out although very informatively so... V Please use AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]) in order to cause autoconfiguration to look for an external libintl. Please create po/Makevars from the template in po/Makevars.template. You can then remove po/Makevars.template. Please run 'automake m4/Makefile' to create m4/Makefile.in Please run 'aclocal -I m4' to regenerate the aclocal.m4 file. You need aclocal from GNU automake 1.5 (or newer) to do this. Then run 'autoconf' to regenerate the configure file. Please remove intl/Makefile from the AC_OUTPUT or AC_CONFIG_FILES invocation in the configure.in file. You will also need config.guess and config.sub, which you can get from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/. You might also want to copy the convenience header file gettext.h from the /usr/share/gettext directory into your package. It is a wrapper around <libintl.h> that implements the configure --disable-nls option. Press Return to acknowledge the previous 7 paragraphs. Making ./aclocal.m4 writable ... Running aclocal -I macros ... aclocal: configure.in: 17: macro `AM_PATH_GTK' not found in library Running autoheader... WARNING: Using auxiliary files such as `acconfig.h', `config.h.bot' WARNING: and `config.h.top', to define templates for `config.h.in' WARNING: is deprecated and discouraged. WARNING: Using the third argument of `AC_DEFINE' and WARNING: `AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED' allows to define a template without WARNING: `acconfig.h': WARNING: AC_DEFINE([NEED_MAIN], 1, WARNING: [Define if a function `main' is needed.]) WARNING: More sophisticated templates can also be produced, see the WARNING: documentation. Running automake --gnu ... configure.in:4: your implementation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE comes from an configure.in:4: old Automake version. You should recreate aclocal.m4 configure.in:4: with aclocal and run automake again. configure.in: installing `./install-sh' configure.in: installing `./missing' aclocal.m4:1143: installing `./config.guess' aclocal.m4:1143: installing `./config.sub' Makefile.am: installing `./INSTALL' Makefile.am:3: AM_GNU_GETTEXT used but `intl' not in SUBDIRS src/Makefile.am: installing `./depcomp' automake: src/Makefile.am: Assembler source seen but `CCAS' not defined in `configure.in' automake: src/Makefile.am: Assembler source seen but `CCASFLAGS' not defined in `configure.in' /usr/share/automake-1.6/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.6/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.6/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.6/am/lang-compile.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL Makefile.am:3: AM_GNU_GETTEXT used but `intl' not in SUBDIRS automake: src/Makefile.am: Assembler source seen but `CCAS' not defined in `configure.in' automake: src/Makefile.am: Assembler source seen but `CCASFLAGS' not defined in `configure.in' /usr/share/automake-1.6/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.6/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.6/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL /usr/share/automake-1.6/am/lang-compile.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL Running autoconf ... Running ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --enable-compile-warnings ... checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for working aclocal... found checking for working autoconf... found checking for working automake... found checking for working autoheader... found checking for working makeinfo... missing checking for gnome-config... no checking for gnomeConf.sh file in /usr/local/lib... not found configure: error: Could not find the gnomeConf.sh file that is generated by gnome-libs install I guess the first thing I'll need to do is figure out the what and Y4's of: AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]) Thank You and Merry Christmas Everyone, farmer6re9 -- Eating Crow is better with MyCrowSauce -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml