Here is an application.
Web cam is in operation (either IP cam or non IP cam). Subscribers can login and view the display. However, they need to pay by the minutes for usage.
Are there ready FOSS solutions that do the same?
Can it be an IP based camera which is serving pages directly to subscribers who log in via a remotely hosted site? The bandwidth calculator can reside at the remotely hosted site.
thanks abhishek
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On Saturday 28 October 2006 13:30, Abhishek Daga wrote:
Here is an application.
Web cam is in operation (either IP cam or non IP cam). Subscribers can login and view the display.
What are u going to display.
However, they need to pay by the minutes for usage.
Are there ready FOSS solutions that do the same?
Many.
Can it be an IP based camera which is serving pages directly to subscribers who log in via a remotely hosted site?
Yes.
Are u streaming video or showing snaps? For streaming vlc, gstreamer, ffmpeg For snaps v4lgrab, xawtv, motion.
Use ful streaming requires 4Mbps. Snaps dpends on the size.
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On Saturday 28 October 2006 13:30, Abhishek Daga wrote:
Here is an application.
Web cam is in operation (either IP cam or non IP cam). Subscribers can login and view the display.
What are u going to display.
So the detailed project report is as follows:
Background: Had seen web cam based services in US day cares/play schools many years ago for parents to keep an eye for their kids. Today's Eco times has a watch-your-ward type article on page 22.
Taking off on that, The project is to, provide an low cost yet effective infrastructure for such a service which schools can implement without increasing the fees 5x times.
The concept would be.. IP based camera linked to internet service. uplinks to a remote server. Video stream of reasonable picture quality.
Subscribers can log in where they can watch their child's webcam. But they should pay for the use on a bandwidth usage basis.
This is another service which has a huge potential and can be implemented by the FOSS community effectively before the vultures move in and cash in on this by milking the double income single child couples.
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Background: Had seen web cam based services in US day cares/play schools many years ago for parents to keep an eye for their kids. Today's Eco times has a watch-your-ward type article on page 22.
Taking off on that, The project is to, provide an low cost yet effective infrastructure for such a service which schools can implement without increasing the fees 5x times.
The concept would be.. IP based camera linked to internet service. uplinks to a remote server. Video stream of reasonable picture quality.
Subscribers can log in where they can watch their child's webcam. But they should pay for the use on a bandwidth usage basis.
Option I IP camera connected to a ADSL router running dynadns. Total cost IP camera 5.5 K, Router 2k. No Authentication or accounting.
Option II PC + Web camera + ADSL router. You can connect multiple camera to PC. Total cost make your guess. Authentication or accounting possible.
BTW forget video, but pictures OK.
Best Regards,
Mukund Deshmukh. Beta Computronics Pvt Ltd 10/1, IT Park, Parsodi, Nagpur-440022, INDIA. Cell +919422113746
--- Mukund Deshmukh betacomp_ngp@sancharnet.in wrote:
Option II PC + Web camera + ADSL router. You can connect multiple camera to PC. Total cost make your guess. Authentication or accounting possible.
BTW forget video, but pictures OK.
Why forget video? I am curious. if the ISP line does provide for uploads at 512 kbps then we can hit 30 fps. ofcourse there will be more than 1 camera in each location.
Would a 15 fps be OK if one just needs to check on the kid? Anyone with first hand experience?
-abhi
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BTW forget video, but pictures OK.
Why forget video? I am curious. if the ISP line does provide for uploads at 512 kbps then we can hit 30 fps. ofcourse there will be more than 1 camera in each location.
Would a 15 fps be OK if one just needs to check on the kid? Anyone with first hand experience?
It all depends on video size, if you opt for QVGA (320X240) then probably 512kbps DSL would be able to serve one client but at much lesser fps.
You need a whopping bandwidth (may be 2MBPS or more) to carry good quality video. You also have to consider latency. We had tested such system on office LAN on QVGA at 15fps. The quality was OK, but did not checked bandwidth.
Best Regards,
Mukund Deshmukh. Beta Computronics Pvt Ltd 10/1, IT Park, Parsodi, Nagpur-440022, INDIA. Cell +919422113746
On Saturday 28 October 2006 17:44, Abhishek Daga wrote:
BTW forget video, but pictures OK.
Why forget video? I am curious. if the ISP line does provide for uploads at 512 kbps then we can hit 30 fps. ofcourse there will be more than 1 camera in each location.
400kbps per camera per connection for qcif @ 25 fps. At qcif resolution the kids would look like roaches. At D1 the bw per connection will be 800kbps for a jerky pic and 4Mbps for "dvd" quality.
Abhishek Daga wrote:
--- Mukund Deshmukh betacomp_ngp@sancharnet.in wrote:
Option II PC + Web camera + ADSL router. You can connect multiple camera to PC. Total cost make your guess. Authentication or accounting possible.
BTW forget video, but pictures OK.
Why forget video? I am curious. if the ISP line does provide for uploads at 512 kbps then we can hit 30 fps. ofcourse there will be more than 1 camera in each location.
Would a 15 fps be OK if one just needs to check on the kid? Anyone with first hand experience?
Are you planning to place the web cam at a general viewing distance? It may not give you any details except unidentifiable tiny tots playing about. You will have to give zoom features so the parents can identify their kids. That means a remote controlled camera that can zoom in/out and move in 4 directions. I thank God, there was no such snooping around during my school days. ;)
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On Saturday 28 October 2006 16:44, Abhishek Daga wrote:
--- jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
On Saturday 28 October 2006 13:30, Abhishek Daga wrote:
Here is an application.
Web cam is in operation (either IP cam or non IP cam). Subscribers can login and view the display.
What are u going to display.
So the detailed project report is as follows:
Background: Had seen web cam based services in US day cares/play schools many years ago for parents to keep an eye for their kids. Today's Eco times has a watch-your-ward type article on page 22.
Taking off on that, The project is to, provide an low cost yet effective infrastructure for such a service which schools can implement without increasing the fees 5x times.
As though they need an excuse.
The concept would be.. IP based camera linked to internet service. uplinks to a remote server. Video stream of reasonable picture quality.
To be cost effective u would require one cam per room - ideally two - connected to a pixelview card in a piii box (depending on number of connections) wired to ADSL with permanent ip. Grab snaps every few seconds and copy to /var/www/classroomXY. Mom n pop connect via gprs to watch the shenanigans . Max cams = 8 in snap mode. Regular ccd cameras. With a p4 an plenty of ram 32 cameras in snap mode.
Subscribers can log in where they can watch their child's webcam. But they should pay for the use on a bandwidth usage basis.
Usable live video is too bw intensive. Especially if ther are more than one user connecting.
Abhishek Daga wrote:
Here is an application.
Web cam is in operation (either IP cam or non IP cam). Subscribers can login and view the display. However, they need to pay by the minutes for usage.
What is the display about?
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