A friend suggested. http://www.securityideas.com/ On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 11:40:02 -0700, Rick Stevens <rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Paul wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > >>I need recommendations on equipment suitable to capture such action at a > >>distance of 200 feet. Audio only at night would suffice as long as we > >>can show video and audio of similar events during broad day light. The > >>audio is the part that concerns me. I may have to have the equipment > >>outdoors to get good audio. > > > > > > Video camera with a date on while recording. Recording into PC with some > > form of date stamp and pgp signature, encode to some format of your > > choice. > > > > Failing that, a couple of webcams (you can get them with pretty decent > > lens now) pointing at the neighbours house which are sound/light > > triggered. > > D-Link's larger webcams use standard C-mount lenses, meaning that > they're capable of accepting any standard video lens including > telephoto. Barring that, get a video card such as the Hauppage or > AverMedia and use a standard video camera with the appropriate lens. > > You'd probably want a gun- or parabolic-style mic, as these are highly > directional and quite sensitive. Visit your local electronic store > and find one that will work with your sound card or video card. > > For recording software, you could try VLC, MPlayer or any other free > PVR software that works with Linux and handles V4L. A google search > should reveal a bunch of them. Many webcams now come with surveillance > software, although it's usually Windows-based. Depending on the > package, it might run under Wine. If you have VMware, all the better. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - Consciousness: that annoying time between naps. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
