> followup to my inquiry: > > An approach to security surveilliance > is to use projects already maturing for recording > television shows, DVR, digital video recorders, > and implement a web interface. > > This port looks interesting: > > FFmpeg > is a collection of free software that can record, convert > and stream digital audio and video. > http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/
Personnally that's what i use but there are many other options as many cameras stream directly mjpeg video . I convert directly mjpeg to divx by using ffmpeg The most annoying is perhaps the variable bitrate :-/ hth
