Motion Capture

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I saw a lot of freeware/shareware/commercial programs doing motion capture,
but the few I tried don't completely meet my needs (admittedly I have not
tried all of them due to lack of time). I'm hoping to get suggestions on new
programs to try

What I need is:

- User-definable motion capture, possibly with the ability to define active
areas of the image to monitor (i.e. filter out movements outside of the
selected areas)
- Generation of AVI/MPEG/WMV video for as long as the movement is detected.
I don't want to just get a picture, but to record a user-definable rate
movie of arbitrary length
- If possible, record x seconds before movement starts (by using a buffer
and always keeping x seconds of live video in memory, saving the buffer as
soon as movement is detected)
- low cost

Don't need FTP or email notification (nice to have, but not necessary in my
application)

Any suggestion? Thanks in advance, Rob

 

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Try Active Webcam from http://www.pysoft.com

It does most of what you want. for $29

mk38


"Robca" <foo@foo.com> wrote in message news:gr1Yc.339$bD5.308@trnddc03...
> I saw a lot of freeware/shareware/commercial programs doing motion
capture,
> but the few I tried don't completely meet my needs (admittedly I have not
> tried all of them due to lack of time). I'm hoping to get suggestions on
new
> programs to try
>
> What I need is:
>
> - User-definable motion capture, possibly with the ability to define
active
> areas of the image to monitor (i.e. filter out movements outside of the
> selected areas)
> - Generation of AVI/MPEG/WMV video for as long as the movement is
detected.
> I don't want to just get a picture, but to record a user-definable rate
> movie of arbitrary length
> - If possible, record x seconds before movement starts (by using a buffer
> and always keeping x seconds of live video in memory, saving the buffer as
> soon as movement is detected)
> - low cost
>
> Don't need FTP or email notification (nice to have, but not necessary in
my
> application)
>
> Any suggestion? Thanks in advance, Rob
>
>

 

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

We don't have user definable masks as yet, but our CamPanel Software
prerecords one second of buffer before motion occurred, and the
recording is with jpeg sequences at selectable speeds up to 20fps so
that all the stills are clear and usable.

In compressed formats like mpeg and wmv, only the key frames are
clear. AVI takes too much space and we do not record sound (that is
still illegal in most states without the consent of the parties being
recorded) so we use jpeg sequences instead of AVI.

We do keep recording until motion stops.

You can get more information and download a trial version of CamPanel
2.5 download at

www.trackercam.com/campanel

CamPanel license is $49.99 or free if you own an accompanying
TrackerPod or PowerPod. (These optional robotic bases allow you to
swivel your camera in various directions).

Hope this helps.



"Robca" <foo@foo.com> wrote in message news:<gr1Yc.339$bD5.308@trnddc03>...
> I saw a lot of freeware/shareware/commercial programs doing motion capture,
> but the few I tried don't completely meet my needs (admittedly I have not
> tried all of them due to lack of time). I'm hoping to get suggestions on new
> programs to try
>
> What I need is:
>
> - User-definable motion capture, possibly with the ability to define active
> areas of the image to monitor (i.e. filter out movements outside of the
> selected areas)
> - Generation of AVI/MPEG/WMV video for as long as the movement is detected.
> I don't want to just get a picture, but to record a user-definable rate
> movie of arbitrary length
> - If possible, record x seconds before movement starts (by using a buffer
> and always keeping x seconds of live video in memory, saving the buffer as
> soon as movement is detected)
> - low cost
>
> Don't need FTP or email notification (nice to have, but not necessary in my
> application)
>
> Any suggestion? Thanks in advance, Rob

 

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

I'll give it a try, thanks for the pointer.

"Eagletron" <announcement@eagletron.com> wrote in message
news:fb83fbb.0409031908.51c0147a@posting.google.com...
> We don't have user definable masks as yet, but our CamPanel Software
> prerecords one second of buffer before motion occurred, and the
> recording is with jpeg sequences at selectable speeds up to 20fps so
> that all the stills are clear and usable.
>
> In compressed formats like mpeg and wmv, only the key frames are
> clear. AVI takes too much space and we do not record sound (that is
> still illegal in most states without the consent of the parties being
> recorded) so we use jpeg sequences instead of AVI.
>
> We do keep recording until motion stops.
>
> You can get more information and download a trial version of CamPanel
> 2.5 download at
>
> www.trackercam.com/campanel
>
> CamPanel license is $49.99 or free if you own an accompanying
> TrackerPod or PowerPod. (These optional robotic bases allow you to
> swivel your camera in various directions).
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
>
> "Robca" <foo@foo.com> wrote in message
> news:<gr1Yc.339$bD5.308@trnddc03>...
>> I saw a lot of freeware/shareware/commercial programs doing motion
>> capture,
>> but the few I tried don't completely meet my needs (admittedly I have not
>> tried all of them due to lack of time). I'm hoping to get suggestions on
>> new
>> programs to try
>>
>> What I need is:
>>
>> - User-definable motion capture, possibly with the ability to define
>> active
>> areas of the image to monitor (i.e. filter out movements outside of the
>> selected areas)
>> - Generation of AVI/MPEG/WMV video for as long as the movement is
>> detected.
>> I don't want to just get a picture, but to record a user-definable rate
>> movie of arbitrary length
>> - If possible, record x seconds before movement starts (by using a buffer
>> and always keeping x seconds of live video in memory, saving the buffer
>> as
>> soon as movement is detected)
>> - low cost
>>
>> Don't need FTP or email notification (nice to have, but not necessary in
>> my
>> application)
>>
>> Any suggestion? Thanks in advance, Rob