Hi, may be the software I am looking for already exists of can easily created by plugging together already existing pieces:
With a Logitech c920 webcam (Full HD) I plan to record birds on my roof. I need to record "everything": Starting from the birds landing on the roof until the fligh away again. Since the camera delivers Full HD video AND I need the "complete movie" of the bird motion detection is not suitable here: Decoding analyzing and reencoding in case of recording would take to much horsepower... But Normally I will recogize the birds after the landed on the roof. My idea is to do something like loop recoording: The stream is cut into pieces of 5 minutes length. If I dont hit "ENTER" (or something similar) the previously recorded piece of video gets delted after the current one has been completly recorded. If I hit ENTER no deletion is performed until I hit ENTER again. I already have a script hacked together with a gst-launch command, which is able to fetch the Full HD hardware encoded stream from the C920 and put it on the harddisk. But I failed in creating a script which allows me to simultanously watch the material which gets recorded just in the same moment. Is there any software or script or <fill in something appropiate here> which does this loop recording as described above AND is able to pull the Full HD stream correctly from the C920? Where can I proceed? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards and have a nice weekend! mcc
