[Bglug] Linux Video Camera App

Stars stars at unitedwaybg.com
Wed Jan 4 11:01:45 EST 2017


The Dash Cam is dedicated to surveillance only, it can Not be used as a web cam due to the firmware installed.
According to the manufacturer.

Regards,
Chris.

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From: Group [group-bounces at bglug.ca] On Behalf Of Tyler MacDonald [tyler at macdonald.name]
Sent: December-20-16 3:05 PM
To: Bruce-Grey Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Bglug] Linux Video Camera App

Hmm. Try running "dmesg", note the last message in the log, then plugg it in, running "dmesg" again, read the new messages in the kernel log and see what they say? If the thing is talking to the computer at all you should get a "USB device connected" message as well as information about what the kernel thinks it is and what driver it tries to assign it to.


On 20 December 2016 at 12:25, LP <linuxpusher2 at gmail.com<mailto:linuxpusher2 at gmail.com>> wrote:
Will try your ffmpeg later
Cheese will not work with this camera,....yet
lshw does not show it.
Mini usb to USB used.
seems hardware has a failure to communicate.
Could be Debian issue.
No option in camera menu.
later.

[http://i923.photobucket.com/albums/ad79/candive/7d381ea0-1702-43dc-9185-0070677b1956_zpse48e93e2.png][http://i923.photobucket.com/albums/ad79/candive/PoweredbyLinuxEDITED_zps5856465c.jpg]

On 20 December 2016 at 08:35, Tyler MacDonald <tyler at macdonald.name<mailto:tyler at macdonald.name>> wrote:
ffmpeg won't let you down  :-)   https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Capture/Webcam#Linux


On 20 December 2016 at 07:11, LP <linuxpusher2 at gmail.com<mailto:linuxpusher2 at gmail.com>> wrote:
I have not tried cheese with this camera yet, I was looking for something that would make full use of the 1080p.
"Zoneminder" is what I was trying to remember.
Thanks




On 19 December 2016 at 12:45, Tyler MacDonald <tyler at macdonald.name<mailto:tyler at macdonald.name>> wrote:
What is the use case that Cheese isn't satisfying? There's several others like webcamoid, and if you want to play around on the commandline, you can have ffmpeg do the recording for you (there may be a frontend to help with that too).

The one that pops to mind to me for remote (security) cameras is "Zoneminder", it can handle basic webcams and appliance security cameras, can email alerts, ftp videos offsite, etc. It's finnicky to set up, but once it's set up it works great, and it's written in a modular way that makes it easy to extend if you know perl.

     - Tyler



On 19 December 2016 at 11:09, LP <linuxpusher2 at gmail.com<mailto:linuxpusher2 at gmail.com>> wrote:
I remember there was one for remote cameras but I don't think its in the repos.



On 19 December 2016 at 10:35, LP <linuxpusher2 at gmail.com<mailto:linuxpusher2 at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi all,
Can anyone recommend a High Quality Linux App for use with an HD 1080p Dash-cam to be used as a web cam / Skype / Video ??
Cheese is the only one I can find.
I am using Debian 8.5 LXDE 64 bit.
Thanks
Chris.



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