Video Streaming - Dreamplug

[LEDengine]

Hello,

Very happy to be part of this community.
I bought a  Globalscale Dreamplug, and I'm expecting it later this week.

I would like to do a little project with it, and was wondering if you guys could give me a general direction.

I have an IP camera, which I would like the Dreamplug to connect to (same network switch).
Once connected, I would like the Dreamplug to "pull" a mpeg4 video from the camera and save it locally.
The video will be 60 seconds long.

That's the part I need help with.
The other part, which I can do my self (somewhat!) is to upload via ftp that 60 second file to a webserver.

Any thoughts on what I can do/use for the "video"?
Would ffmpeg be a good place to start?

Thanks to everyone in advance!

[bad_gui]

Try this http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Webcam-HOWTO/framegrabbers.html
or this https://www.linux.com/news/hardware/peripherals/8211-five-fun-ways-to-use-a-linux-webcam/
I don't have an IP camera and I don't know if these solutions will work with one.

I have a Guruplug server plus with the default Debian Lenny and a usb camera. I use this package
http://code.google.com/p/mjpg-streamer-mini2440/downloads/detail?name=mjpg-streamer-mini2440-bin-libjpeg62.tar.gz&can=4&q= to provide live video.  The mjpg streamer package from other sources are built against a different version of libjpeg from what is on the Guruplug.  If you have a usb camera you could use a shell script to grab images with this package.

[LEDengine]

Very good information.
Thank you!

I will see how I adapt this to my IP cameras, and update this thread with the information.

The use of USB webcams is... freaking awesome.
++rep

Thank you!

[pacolm]

Do you know the Zoneminder package (www.zoneminder.com). Maybe it will work for you.