I'm trying the gallery2 software and it does have support built in for webcams. I don't use it so I cannot attest to its effectiveness. G2 is in Beta if that matters, so they are recommending that it not be used on production servers. The last CVS I pulled has been pretty stable for me YMMV.
Dave S -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joseph Tate Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 3:02 PM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [TriLUG] new project: networked video cameras Well, you may be able to shoehorn something like Gallery or coppermine into doing what you want. These are fairly complex photo gallery packages. I use gallery at http://gallery.dragonstrider.com. On 7/21/05, Greg Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/21/05, Shane O'Donnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What do you mean by "front-end for the database"? > > > > DB administration? Or GUI to present your pix, which you're storing > > in a database? > > > > BTW - the whole "pics in a database" isn't making a lot of sense to > > me, but hey -- your goofy project #45798... > > > > Shane O. > > > Yes, I have had my share of odd projects. Okay, here is a bit more > detail (I'll blame the incoherence of my first post on me 1/2 > listening to a conference call while typing). > > The pictures themselves will not be going in database but they will be > stored on the drive. Information about the picture, time of photo, > picture name, etc will be stored in a table on the database for easy > look, sorting, etc. > > The "front end" I am looking for is not the PHP front-end rather, as > Shane put it, a GUI to present the pictures. > > Axis has a product for this > (http://www.axis.com/products/cam_rec_software/index.htm) but it only > runs on Windows and costs over $600.00 (truly not much for a company, > but this could be recreated for much less money). Axis also has a > video server, but it is costly as well. > > So, in the end, I would like to use Linux/Motion/PHP/Apache/Mysql > (LAMMP, I suppose) with video incoming from several cameras. The > missing ingredient at this point is the PHP application to display and > sort through the photos. > > Greg > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member > Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- Joseph Tate Personal e-mail: jtate AT dragonstrider DOT com Web: http://www.dragonstrider.com -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
