I have an IP camera foscam, I am trying to setup a software on my server that can continuously record video and audio. Which software should I use?
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I had good results with Foscams using Zoneminder. FYI, it uses quite a bit of resources. |
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Both VLC and avconv work splendidly. Try this: ..to record one hour video. You can use this in a small shell script to rotate hourly video files over time. Under Ubuntu, make sure you install ubuntu-restricted-extras for the proper codecs. |
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Under Linux I have found GStreamer incredibly powerful in the work I have been recently doing. It has a variety of plug-ins that can be used to capture, manipulate, transcode, etc. It is included in the package management repositories of all major Linux distributions I have encountered, although it may come as a series of different packages (Good, Bad Ugly) due to licensing issues. It is a little daunting to use at first, when using it from the command line it operates on a pipeline basis similar to the console itself. For example the following pipeline would capture video from a webcam and save it as a H264 encoded MKV file. Now clearly the pipelines vary depending on your exact circumstance, but some general rules ring true - such as you always need at-least one source and sink and generally if you have encoded a video you will also want to mux it. Edit: I should also note that it has a C SDK for those who wish to use it as part of a C/C++ application as I have. |
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My Foscam camera can record video/audio itself and send it to an FTP server, provided it has an SD card inserted. It uses the ASF format. |
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