Motion Detection Software

ben

Hi Forum,

I'd like to get started with some sort of motion detection software, i need to save images (still frames) or videos from a common webcam when something changes. I even need to shape the area I need di capture cause in some areas there are noises or non interesting things (car traffic and so on). I need it for a private remote camera control for surveillance. Any hints ? is there someone having experience on it ?

Thanks

Ben

Flu

Oops, forgot to login, so that's my post above. One other thing I wanted to mention was that Motion may already be included in your distro's repository. I know Motion is included in the RPM Fusion repo, so I just used the yum install motion command to install it, instead of downloading the source and compiling that. You can install the RPM Fusion repository for Fedora 8, 9 or 10 with this command as root, if need be:
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

Also, motion does allow you to create a mask to prevent areas with high motion from triggering motion events. There are instructions for this on the site here:
http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/MotionGuideOneLargeDocument#mask_file

ben

Woah, That's what I was looking for !
Indeed that's exactly what I'm trying to do, I was pretty sure someone else already did it. And thanks again for your reply
It seems to be the quickest and complete reply I've ever seen ;-)

I think I'll use these forums heavily from now

Cheers
Ben

Tarek Ahmed

thanks for the question , your question helped me learning about new things.

abrenar

thanks for the question and the answer, i am really excited to do this at my home. to see what happening when im here at office ^__^

Emperor_Penguin

http://www.zoneminder.com/
This is a great project. I have used it and it works great.

animatronico

Motion Detection Software are very good I remember I had one when I used Windows XP but when I changed to windows vistas the drivers for it was not good anymore
so this topic is good because I want to buy a new one.

thanks
Marcelo
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