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bbwannabe · 31-08-2007, 14:56

I've got a small camera setup in my room for security reasons (i.e things being thrown at window) pointing outside, but i can't find a suitable application to make it effective. At the moment, i'm using virtualdub to capture the streams through a capture device as an avi file. But it doesn't do motion detection, so the file ends up in GBs for less than a days recording and most of the time, it's pretty much the same image all day. It doesn't timestamp it either, which can make things difficult if i need to jump to a time straight away and don't know where it is.

Any and all suggestions welcome. If it's able to encode it to a custom codec and allows a direct and adjustable camera adjustments (sharpness, hue, saturation, etc) then that'd be a great extra.

Thanks.

31-08-2007, 14:56	#1
bbwannabe Inactive Join Date: May 2004 Age: 42 Posts: 567	Motion Detection S/W I've got a small camera setup in my room for security reasons (i.e things being thrown at window) pointing outside, but i can't find a suitable application to make it effective. At the moment, i'm using virtualdub to capture the streams through a capture device as an avi file. But it doesn't do motion detection, so the file ends up in GBs for less than a days recording and most of the time, it's pretty much the same image all day. It doesn't timestamp it either, which can make things difficult if i need to jump to a time straight away and don't know where it is. Any and all suggestions welcome. If it's able to encode it to a custom codec and allows a direct and adjustable camera adjustments (sharpness, hue, saturation, etc) then that'd be a great extra. Thanks.