while VideoLan (server and client) are exceptional products, and although i'm not familiar with it Palantir is seems along the same functionality as videolan...well, my point was that neither of these products are suitable for a surveillance system unless you pair them with your own time-lapse VCR to handle recording. Both gspy and zoneminder both do motion sensing and can record incidents based on movement for a given camera and while my experience with Zoneminder is limited, GSpy can go a step further and record its own time-lapse mpgs. This seems to be (to me) a critical feature of a system like this and while you might be able to rig up something like that with videolan and/or palantir neither one were designed for that out of the box. I personally already use videolan to broadcast my home media collection to different tv's in the house but I can't imagine using it for video monitoring...maybe setting up ffmpeg to do the recording or something like that but then you need to deal with the time-lapse aspect which means intensive modification to the code in some part of the system...anyway, enough on that...good luck. -----Original Message----- From: video4linux-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:video4linux-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Bill Eldridge Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 3:33 AM To: video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Video Surveillance System As someone just mentioned Videolan, my thoughts on Palantir involved it being very very easy to set up, and can use a Web browser, a Java client, or the simple Palantir client. Unfortunately, it looks like only a Linux server is available, and it only allows one audio connection at a time (i.e. only one client of many can hear anything), but it can control camera devices remotely. VLC from Videolan can serve from a Windows machine or a Linux machine, and on Windows handles DirectX devices such as USB cameras, plus the installation is getting easier and easier and there is better support now for the Mozilla plug-in on Windows. BUT, it is still a much more complex program than Palantir, handling lots of video formats and multicasting, while Palantir does Motion JPEG only and TCP unicasting. Bill Eldridge wrote: > > palantir.sourceforge.net isn't bad either, > though I don't know if it records. > > Bryan Waters wrote: > >> http://gspy.sourceforge.net/ >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: video4linux-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx >> [mailto:video4linux-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ogee >> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 10:21 AM >> To: video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: Video Surveillance System >> >> >> Hi there I need to make a video surveillance system. >> I need a stream server and a client to watch the stream and eventually >> record it that can run on windows. >> What software is available to build this system? >> Can I set up a dial in server to make stream available on a modem >> connection? >> Are there any wireless webcam supported by linux? >> Thankz in advance >> Ogee >> >> >> -- >> video4linux-list mailing list >> Unsubscribe >> mailto:video4linux-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list >> >> >> -- >> video4linux-list mailing list >> Unsubscribe >> mailto:video4linux-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list >> >> > > > > -- > video4linux-list mailing list > Unsubscribe > mailto:video4linux-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list -- video4linux-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:video4linux-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
