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Old 17-02-2005, 10:10   #11
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Re: Caught in the act

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Originally Posted by skyblueheroes
So, is there a guide anywhere for someone who may want to set up a similar setup ? What type of camera will be needed ?
Duncan Grisby sent a link to his website http://www.grisby.org/burglar.html to the cam.misc newsgroup so we have been following this story for a while now!

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Originally Posted by DuncanGrisby
The camera isn't anything special. It's an unbranded little thing with a fixed lens. It outputs a composite video signal. In the PC, I had a generic BT-848 PCI video capture card. It just worked with Linux. I didn't have to do anything clever to make it work. The only "clever" bit I did was to write some scripts to upload the files to an off-site server, which turned out to be a very sensible thing to have done...
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