Re: [Motion-user] How to connect usb webcams from other computers

[Colin L. <cl...@go...>]

On 24 January 2011 10:59, Mam Ruoc <ma...@gm...> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am new to motion and needs to know if it is possible to connect motion to webcams that are connected to computers around the house?
> I have a dozen of computers, and I would like to exploit the webcams connected to the computers for surveillance purposes, as a addition to ip-cams.

One way is to generate an mpjpeg stream from the camera which can be
monitored by motion on the other machine.
This can be done for example by vlc but there are no doubt other ways
of generating the stream.

On Ubuntu this can be done by something like
cvlc v4l2:///dev/video1  --sout
 "#transcode{vcodec=MJPG,fps=4}:standard{access=http,mux=mpjpeg,dst=localhost:8085/stream1.mpjpeg}"
 --sout-keep --no-sout-audio

Note that the .mpjpeg extension on the stream is important.  Do not
miss-spell it.

Colin