On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 14:29, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Does anyone have any suggestions for WebCam software, opensourced or > free? I am thinking about creating the software myself but I wanted to see > if there are other people doing it already. So far, I have looked at: > What I am interested in is the following features: > > 1) Support for many cameras. I have an old winnov that supports up to 3 > cameras on a framegrabber card so this particular one is seen as ONE camera > from Windows point of view, but I can use a proprientary dll to switch the cameras > and change built-in properties. I guess support different cameras and cards > here might be a bit difficult but anyway it might be a fun project. > > 2) Supports streaming, so that independent systems w/ cameras on them > can stream the data to whatever site that queries it. Can be directed to a > webpage for streaming or single frame capture. > > 3) Support for full-axis camera movement for cameras that support it. > > 4) Has security features; the ability to compare frames at high-speed to > "motion detect" as a percentage of change from 1% to 99% Maybe there > is other security features that can be done but this is one that I know about > supported on webcam32 from Kolban Sounds like you need to look at http://www.zoneminder.com.
