SCRAP: Security Camera Recording Application

 
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2005.02.10
- First release 1.0.0

   
         
     What it is    
   

SCRAP (Security Camera Recording APplication) is a security camera recording application for Linux.

   
     Features    
   

SCRAP is capable of working with any video4linux compatible device, supporring all of its documented features. It can grab frames from multiple inputs of a single device and also support working with multiple capture boards at the same time, giving user the advantage of a low-cost recording system.

It has a very reliable motion detection system, recording only when movement happens and ignoring the rest, including light changes. So, in a tipical 24h recording cycle, you will have only a few hours of recorded video.

Videos are recorded using XviD's MPEG-4 compression, witch is one of the best video codecs today. The generated AVIs should be playable on AVI+MPEG4 capable video player (all modern video players are).

There is also a recording archive management system, with alow the user keep archived only the recent recordings, erasing the old ones. User can set to erase recordings older than a number of days, or set a maximum disk usage.

Although SCRAP is a console application, it is full featured. It is intented to be run as a daemon, in the background, letting SCRAP doing the recording job without other systems users even notice it is running.

   
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If you find any bugs, or have any problems running SCRAP, please contact the author!

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scrap-1.0.0.tar.gz

BINARY

Here is a static binary (this means no other libraries are needed to run it) for end user convenience. It should run in any Linux 2.4/2.6 system. If you have problems running this binary, please contact the author.

scrap-static-bin-1.0.0.tar.gz

   
     Install    
   

SCRAP source code should compile in any Linux system with the minimum requirements:

* gcc
* make
* binutils
* Doxygen (needed for building developer documentation, useless to end user)
* txt2tags (needed for building manual page and user's guide)
* GNU Libc (including its development package, libc6-dev in Debian systems)
* XviD, version compatible with API version 4 (eg. XviD 1.0.3)
* Linux kernel headers (from 2.4 or 2.6 series, not tested with 2.2 or older series)

If you find problems compiling it, please, check the minimum requirements, and all of them apply, please, contact the author, you've found a BUG.

The provided binary, should run in ANY Linux 2.4/2.6 sytem. Just unpack the tar.gz and run. Again, if you find problems, please contact the author.

   
     
  2005.02.10  
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