Is there a video module so that I can write a Linux Python script to
record video coming over USB video cams?
What about these side-thoughts:
* What about recording multiple streams over multiple USB ports? (Think
in the context of a security system.)
* What about lossy compression?
* What about recording only time slices?
* How would you provide real-time video to a security guard, but then
only write time-sliced, lossy compression to disk, saving disk space
yet providing something very suitable for a security guard to watch
live?
2  2916  go********@hotp op.com wrote: Is there a video module so that I can write a Linux Python script to
record video coming over USB video cams?
You can open the device and read the images - I've done that before. No
module needed. But I don't remember how things worked - just download the
source for a simple viewer like gcqam and look at what they are doing.
What about these side-thoughts:
* What about recording multiple streams over multiple USB ports? (Think
in the context of a security system.)
No deal, open several devices. * What about lossy compression?
Won't be doable in python in reasonable time - but there might be modules
available for that, or at least libs you can wrap. Make your name honor...
* What about recording only time slices?
Just wait the appropriate interval
* How would you provide real-time video to a security guard, but then
only write time-sliced, lossy compression to disk, saving disk space
yet providing something very suitable for a security guard to watch
live?
Hrm - just _do_ it? But the problems are not on the python side - how is
your guard going to retrieve the images, which bandwidth can he use and so
on.
Basically it boils down to
- do the infrastructure and application functionality in python
- delegate the compression to some c-backend
Network and IO performance _shouldn't_ be too much of a concern using
python, as it uses the underlying system's calls for that. But in the end,
use a profiler :)
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