RE: xPL & video capturing

["Michael Avanessian" <mkanet@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry to hear that Tom.  I setup a very simple security system which took
picture highres snapshots every couple of seconds and had them uploaded to
a
remote FTP account.  I use http://www.webcam32.com/  It doesn't
really make
sense to set up a security cam if the person vandalizing also takes the box
with the security recordings.

I have 3 cams.  A B/W one at the front of the house with an IR cannon
lighting up my entire street at night (bought them from x-10.com), 1 for
the
hallway to my computer room, and one in my computer room.

PS:  They have some pretty slick cams out now that have built-in
webservers,
wireless, sound, and built-in pan/tilt/zoom controls.

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Tom Van den Panhuyzen
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 12:38 AM
To: ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_xpl] xPL & video capturing

Hi people,

Today I was victim of vandalism around the house (I live in a rather
remote but easily accessible area.  Some young trees were destroyed).
Makes my blood boil...  Long time ago I already had the idea to
capture video from a camera hanging near to the edge of the roof.  The
camera was installed, I have a capture card but never really got it
all configured correctly or running like I would like.  The camera is
old (and NTSC...), the capture card a Hauppage WinTV so also not
really made for that.

What I would like to have is a system that can be controlled via xPL
to start capturing video.  The motion detectors outside the house send
out xPL packets already.

I really need some advice to achieve this.  There probably exist
packages on the market that do this, but are these xPL-able, generate
standard viewable video, able to run as a service, ... ?  My
preference would go to some freeware c# component that I can play with
and add an xPL front for. :-)

Thanks
Tom



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