detect motion from serise of images

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Hi, i have a web cam that can ftp images. is there a way i can have another
program download those images and detect if motion had occured? i.e. like an
intruder?

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problem is i allready have a network camera, but it doesn't act like a
normal windows webcamera. i have to find some software that can look at
allready saved images...my camera is a panasonic network camera model:
KX-hcm10


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>> Hi, i have a web cam that can ftp images. is there a way i can have
>> another program download those images and detect if motion had occured?
>> i.e. like an intruder?
>
> Possibly, but you could also get webcam software that
> has motion detection capability built in. You might give
> HomeSentinel at http://bobday.vze.com a try.
>
> -- Bob Day
>

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On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:58:24 GMT, "James"
<IDontWantToGetSpammed@NotaRealEmail.com> wrote:

>problem is i allready have a network camera, but it doesn't act like a
>normal windows webcamera. i have to find some software that can look at
>allready saved images...my camera is a panasonic network camera model:
>KX-hcm10

The below has motion detection and works with network cams.

http://www.pysoft.com/ActiveWebCamMainpage.htm

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wow, it says it works with my panasonic network cam, im downloading it right
now. thanks!


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> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:58:24 GMT, "James"
> <IDontWantToGetSpammed@NotaRealEmail.com> wrote:
>
>>problem is i allready have a network camera, but it doesn't act like a
>>normal windows webcamera. i have to find some software that can look at
>>allready saved images...my camera is a panasonic network camera model:
>>KX-hcm10
>
> The below has motion detection and works with network cams.
>
> http://www.pysoft.com/ActiveWebCamMainpage.htm
>

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won't work with my network camera

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> James <IDontWantToGetSpammed@NotaRealEmail.com> spewed:
>> wow, it says it works with my panasonic network cam, im downloading
>> it right now. thanks!
>
> If that doesn't suit your needs, give HomeWatcher a try. I've been using
> v1.5 (0128) for what seems like forever now, and have had very little
> problems with it. It can save images, time lapse video, and the
> registered version allows you to mask areas where you don't want movement
> detected, overlay text and time stamps, etc. The software is free, with
> only a few things disabled. If you don't mind the little
> www.homewatcher.com logo on your images and video, you probably won't even
> have to upgrade to the full version. The free version is only very
> slightly crippled.
>
> Good luck.
>
> --
> Visit My Site: http://www.rubbertoe.com
>

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On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:18:38 GMT, "James"
<IDontWantToGetSpammed@NotaRealEmail.com> wrote:

>the active webcam software works, but its so slow with my camera. This
>causes motion detection not to work correclty. it only sees like 1 frame per
>second. i have tried changing all the settings to increase this but its
>still very slow. know of any other programs that might connect to my network
>camera directly using the activex control from panasonic? active webcam
>seems to just rip the images from my panasonics http server.

That is one of the drawbacks with network cams, you may have to
make do with the software supplied by the cam maker.