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Can I make a camera server only?
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 12:19 am
by ocgltd
I'm new to ZM and want to start by running it in a VM.
I also have a camera connected to the Composite video input on another linux box (running Myth). I would like to make this a "camera server" only...leaving all processing to my VM running elsewhere.
Is this reasonable? I don't want to buy a net camera yet, and want to start with ZM in a VM.
Thanks
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 3:37 am
by kingofkya
take a look at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mjpg-streamer/develop
for the machine with the capture card
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 5:34 am
by ocgltd
Okay looks simple...and ZM can use that card as an input?
I didn't see an obvious answer to this one, but can the MJPEGstreamer also include audio from the camera in the strean?
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 5:47 am
by kingofkya
Zm cant do audio but zm accepts mjpeg streams it work just fine for that
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 9:26 am
by Voltage54
Also checkout Xen:
http://www.xen.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen
I run a Debian server and pass the PCI capture card I have to the DomU (virtual machine) using xen. I have an entire ZM install running in a virtual machine and I must say it works very well!
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:26 pm
by kingofkya
thats a new thing for me gonna check it out
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:21 pm
by ocgltd
I didn't know Xen allows you to pass a PCI card to a VM. I use VMWare Server (free edition) and I can pass a USB device/Serial but not PCI devices (at least not last time I checked)
Interesting...
Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 10:30 am
by Voltage54
exactly why I chose to run xen on debian 'stable' lenny.
don't forget the swoitlb=force option if you're having issues with DMA.