{"id":2800,"date":"2012-12-10T22:43:36","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T05:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=2800"},"modified":"2012-12-10T22:43:36","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T05:43:36","slug":"interesting-linux-web-cam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=2800","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Linux Web Cam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I came\u00a0across\u00a0some web cam software while looking for something else on the net today.<\/p>\n<p>It was pretty nice software called &#8220;motion&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The web site for the software is here<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavrsen.dk\/foswiki\/bin\/view\/Motion\/WebHome\">http:\/\/www.lavrsen.dk\/foswiki\/bin\/view\/Motion\/WebHome<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What made it really easy to setup was having a compatible USB Camera.<\/p>\n<p>I first tried a Gearhead webcam I had but I have had problems in the past getting \u00a0it to work in Linux, but then I tried a cheap Inland USB Camera and it worked.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/LinuxUSBCam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2801\" title=\"LinuxUSBCam\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/LinuxUSBCam-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"LinuxUSBCam\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/LinuxUSBCam-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/LinuxUSBCam.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It worked out of the box, and so did the software. \u00a0In fact, it worked too well, it was scary easy on how I installed it so quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Basically plug in the web cam, yum install ffmpeg motion<\/p>\n<p>then a few tweaks of the config file and type motion<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>Wish my workouts were that easy, just hitting some pushups and situps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I came\u00a0across\u00a0some web cam software while looking for something else on the net today. It was pretty nice software called &#8220;motion&#8221; The web site for the software is here http:\/\/www.lavrsen.dk\/foswiki\/bin\/view\/Motion\/WebHome What made it really easy to setup was having &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=2800\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-toys","category-technical","category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2802,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800\/revisions\/2802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}