webcam&software for monitoring

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Hi
I looking for good webcams and software for monitoring my firm. There is
a 10 agency office where i want to place webcams.

I need:
- good quality picture (max 640x480 & 1-3 fps depended on internet speed)
- streaming video & audio
- local video recording in HDD for future playback (max 640x480 &
5-15fps) - accessible by internet for downloading videos
- remote view software for viewing chosen webcam & record video stream

I have 10 computers:
- P4 - 2GHz, 256MB, 120GB
- Windows XP Pro
- DSL connection (256kbit upload speed; few office have 128kbit)

Best regards,
Peter

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.webcam (More info?)

Assuming you already have routers in place,
and if you could live with smaller 320x240 frames
you might want to look at the likes of the dsc-2000 dlink mpeg network cams
and other makers of network cams too.

"peterphk" <peterphk.no-fq.spam@wp.pl> wrote in message
news:cg9smq$clj$1@news.dialog.net.pl...
> Hi
> I looking for good webcams and software for monitoring my firm. There is
> a 10 agency office where i want to place webcams.
>
> I need:
> - good quality picture (max 640x480 & 1-3 fps depended on internet speed)
> - streaming video & audio
> - local video recording in HDD for future playback (max 640x480 &
> 5-15fps) - accessible by internet for downloading videos
> - remote view software for viewing chosen webcam & record video stream
>
> I have 10 computers:
> - P4 - 2GHz, 256MB, 120GB
> - Windows XP Pro
> - DSL connection (256kbit upload speed; few office have 128kbit)
>
> Best regards,
> Peter

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.webcam (More info?)

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 14:12:23 +0200, "SC" <X news@carolan.no X>
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Could you give me some tips on how to accomplish a webcam setup for
>outdoors? Perhaps maybe live feed onto a website? And also the possibility
>of taking stills automatically (say every 10-15minutes), which can be saved
>to the harddrive.
>
>Would this be hard to accomplish?
>
>Best,
>SC

The usual setup for outdoor cams is a computer connected to the
internet with a capture card or device, an analog cam, and some
software on the computer to serve up the video. My page below
shows a simple (and free) setup to stream a video and
capture/save individual pix on a timed basis. I like the Winnov
AV capture cards you can get on ebay for a reasonable price.
Bottom are some cam suppliers. IP cams are becomming cheaper now,
but I don't have any experience with them.

http://www.geocities.com/zoomkat/webcamsetup.htm

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