SCRAP 1.0.0 review
DownloadSCRAP project is capable of working with any video4linux compatible device, supporring all of its documented features. It can grab f
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SCRAP project 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.
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)
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