If people are interested in coding this, that would be great! Hopefully it can be made generic enough that it will accept multiple, non-cable tv feeds so that you can have multiple webcams or internet feeds on user definable channels Rob Shortt (rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > >These are some good ideas! Do you know if mplayer will play from a >webcam device? > >I am in the process of getting a webcam to play with and while I can't >speak for MythTV, I would like to add features like this to Freevo. >Something like this could be done with some minor hacking probably for >either project. > >-Rob > > >Brian Johnson wrote: >> I was wondering if it would be possible to add a video stream from a webcam as a >> feed through my linux box to my tv (likely as an extra channel) usind a mythtv or >> freevo setup >> >> So that when I'm watching tv in the basement and the doorbell rings, I can switch >> channels to my webcam channel and so who it is!! >> >> Maybe with picture-in-picture, the webcam can be motion activated to pop-up a pip >> of the webcam! > > > > > -- Brian Johnson * This is where my witty signature line would be if I bothered to edit this line :) *
