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BuzzKillington
10-31-2010, 08:52 AM
Preferably free and user friendly. It's for the office at work.
slaveofconvention
10-31-2010, 09:09 AM
What type of webcam is it - I know both Creative and Logitech cams come with (or have in the past) motion activated capture software
BuzzKillington
10-31-2010, 09:23 AM
I offered to donate a generic ebay cam that has some LEDs on it. I was thinking about switching the LEDs to IR but I don't think it'll be needed.

I found a pretty decent software called "Vitamin D" but it's lacking video options. I also found one called "1 more web cam" that has a ton of options but only records picture clips with the option of converting them to video... problem is it's not freeware so you have a big ugly banner on the pics.
Drum Thumper
10-31-2010, 09:36 AM
I know there are some linux solutions. Let me dig around and find them.

Edit:
http://www.chriswpage.com/2009/05/setup-an-advanced-webcam-security-system-with-ubuntu-8-04-and-motion/
BuzzKillington
10-31-2010, 04:23 PM
They're running XP in the office. :/
Snowman
11-02-2010, 09:49 AM
They're running XP in the office. :/

virtual machine Damn Small Linux and motion
BuzzKillington
11-02-2010, 03:06 PM
I'd want it to be a click away rather than going through hoops to open and "arm" the software.

I haven't got a response to the offer yet, only curiosity. I explained it'd be free and rather than going through hours of footage, a manager would only have to press a button when leaving the office and press it again when coming back in. If there were clips, they'd only be 10sec-2min?
Airbozo
11-02-2010, 04:52 PM
Try searching for "security lite" or Security Light". Something like that. There was a freeware program for sgi IRIX (unix), that was ported to several other OS's back in the early to mid 90's. It does exactly what you are asking for, with an email option and everything. I used to use it on my sgi Indy to monitor my back yard and house when I was having issues with a psycho neighbor. I remember seeing a windows version, but that would have been windows 95 era... I never had a webcam except on my sgi systems so I never got a chance to try it.
OvRiDe
11-02-2010, 11:23 PM
I found a pretty decent software called "Vitamin D" but it's lacking video options.

What video options does it lack? It appears to do motion activated video capture.
BuzzKillington
11-03-2010, 12:44 AM
picture settings. white/hue/color balance, etc.
OvRiDe
11-03-2010, 12:51 PM
Ahh, in my experience that is normally the function of the webcam driver sorftware and not the capture software.