<HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16735" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px; FONT: 10pt Tahoma"> <DIV>Youre really screwed with this. OK there you go, either ou get a quality webcam (glass zoom lens, ...) or a capture card and a cctv camera. I still think that the webcam would be the easy way.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> >>> Brian Chivers <brian@portsmouth-college.ac.uk> 2008-11-05 05:26:17 >>> </DIV> <DIV style="COLOR: #000000">Sorry, I was a little "embarrassed" to say what I actually need it to do :-) The lawyers have looked into this & it's them that have told us we'd have to do it :-/ Brian Doug Simpson wrote: > See? If you had been just a tad more explicit as to what you were looking to be looking at, we would have saved a lot of time, here. . . > > Is there any indoor location with a clear view of that field? Some regular webcams come with software that will sit there and record, but only capture any data when there is actual activity. Kinda like a motion-activated video recorder. Had a good sized hard drive in an olod laptop connected to a decent quality webcam with the motion-activated recorder and there ya go. You should be able to see geese in even an inexpensive webcam unless the field is a quarter mile away or something. . . > > DS > > Doug Simpson > Technology Specialist > De Queen Public Schools > De Queen, AR > simpsond@leopards.k12.ar.us > "A Dollar Saved is a Dollar Earned" > > >>>> Brian Chivers <brian@portsmouth-college.ac.uk> 11/4/2008 12:39 PM >>> > OK I'll give you all little more background and it might explain my need > for quality :-) > > You assumed that we're looking at people :-) we need to count GEESE yes > that's right we need to know how many geese roughly are using our field > before we are allowed to build a new college. These are Brent geese > that come over from Canada to feed etc & the local nature people have > said we need to have numbers before we can go ahead, they've said that > snapshots would be OK. > > It's ridiculous that geese are stopping us build a new College but it's > taken almost 3 years to get to this point !!!! > > Brian > > Doug Simpson wrote: >> You aren't needing to read the labels on their clothes. . . you just need to see if there is someone *there*. . . >> >> "Quality" isn't as much of a factor as "the presence of" if you are using this for the described purpose. >> >> DS >> >> Doug Simpson >> Technology Specialist >> De Queen Public Schools >> De Queen, AR >> simpsond@leopards.k12.ar.us >> "A Dollar Saved is a Dollar Earned" >> >> >> >>>>> Brian Chivers <brian@portsmouth-college.ac.uk> 11/4/2008 7:54 AM >>> >>>>> >> Problem is that the webcams don't have the sort of lens that we'd need. >> >> I'm looking at a package called "webcam" that's part of xawtv at the mo to see if that'll do it. >> >> Brian >> >> Guy-Michel Lessard wrote: >> >>> My gut feeling is do'nt touch that, get a Linux compatible webcam. It >>> will be a lot less hassle. I'm sure there will be members here that can >>> suggest easy to get compatible webcams. >>> >>> >>> >>> Brian Chivers <brian@portsmouth-college.ac.uk> 2008-11-04 06:47:24 >>> >>> I've been asked to setup a camera over looking our College's playing >>> field to capture an image every >>> 30 minutes so we can see how much it is being used. >>> >>> I have a camera with that has a composite video output that I'd like to >>> use and a video input card >>> (not sure if it linux compatible, if not I'll get one that is *grin*) >>> but I'm not sure what software >>> to use to do this. >>> >>> Not worried about motion sensing just need a jpg or something every X >>> minutes >>> >>> Does anyone do this ? Any ideas or pointer where to start. >>> >>> Thanks >>> Brian Chivers >>> Portsmouth College >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> The views expressed here are my own and not necessarily >>> >>> the views of Portsmouth College >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> K12OSN mailing list >>> K12OSN@redhat.com >>> <A href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</A> >>> For more info see <<A href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</A>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> K12OSN mailing list >>> K12OSN@redhat.com >>> <A href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</A> >>> For more info see <<A href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</A>> >>> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> The views expressed here are my own and not necessarily >> >> the views of Portsmouth College >> >> _______________________________________________ >> K12OSN mailing list >> K12OSN@redhat.com >> <A href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</A> >> For more info see <<A href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</A>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> K12OSN mailing list >> K12OSN@redhat.com >> <A href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</A> >> For more info see <<A href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</A>> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The views expressed here are my own and not necessarily > > the views of Portsmouth College > > _______________________________________________ > K12OSN mailing list > K12OSN@redhat.com > <A href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</A> > For more info see <<A href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</A>> > > _______________________________________________ > K12OSN mailing list > K12OSN@redhat.com > <A href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</A> > For more info see <<A href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</A>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The views expressed here are my own and not necessarily the views of Portsmouth College _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list K12OSN@redhat.com <A href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</A> For more info see <<A href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</A>> </DIV></BODY></HTML>