> This is the the best (cheapest) for hobbyist (webcams or ntsc(pal) > frame grabber boards for a (local) campus setting. If you are > going to re-transmit the video (stream it) over a WAN or the Internet > you've got a host of other issues to deal with. If this is the goal, > save yourself lots of grief and use H.264.
I've thought this over and I think I'll avoid streaming over the internet. I have two locations to monitor in separate buildings. Each of them has a Gentoo desktop on the same local network. I don't need to do live monitoring so maybe I should just have each of these systems record their videos and send a copy to the other system. That way I always have two copies of all videos, and I can wget what I need from over the internet if I need to review something. How does that sound? Would you use H.264 for this? - Grant
