boatman9 Posted October 25, 2010 Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 I noticed an interesting webcam application; wxCam ( http://wxcam.sourceforge.net/ ). It doesn't seem to be in any of my active Mandriva repositories, which are: PLF Free PLF Non-free Main Main Updates Contrib Contrib Updates Non-free Non-free Updates How can I submit a request for a wxCam rpm to be added? if that's even possible now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 25, 2010 Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 You could always try cheese. I think it does all the same things as this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted October 25, 2010 Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 How can I submit a request for a wxCam rpm to be added? You can file an enhancement request bug report at: https://qa.mandriva.com/ However it may not receive any results with Mandriva's current dev status. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boatman9 Posted October 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 (edited) I am not sure if cheese has motion detection, one of my most desired features. As soon as my new webcam arrives I'll try a few of these webcam applications. "motion" is a command line program which can record video when it detects motion. Edited October 26, 2010 by boatman9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 26, 2010 Report Share Posted October 26, 2010 Maybe try this: http://www.zoneminder.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dude67 Posted October 26, 2010 Report Share Posted October 26, 2010 Hey, that zoneminer looks nice. May have to try that one out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 26, 2010 Report Share Posted October 26, 2010 I keep meaning to try it myself, thought about it for home CCTV - make sure the neighbours don't break my fence :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dude67 Posted October 26, 2010 Report Share Posted October 26, 2010 I tried, but I couldn't install zoneminder in my Mandriva. If anyone manages to install it in Mandriva, let me know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boatman9 Posted October 26, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2010 (edited) There is a PClinuxos rpm for Zoneminder version 1.24.1, 19-Jul-2009, here. I don't know if it will work in Mandriva. Edited October 26, 2010 by boatman9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted October 31, 2010 Report Share Posted October 31, 2010 wxcam could, and should be present at the official Mandriva repos, for a simple reason: It's much superior to cheese, under any aspect. It's compilation from source is rather tricky, though. Under Archlinux it is as simple as running "yaourt -Sy wxcam" in a console window, but under Mandy it does need a bunch of -devel packages (libglade, mjpegtools, perlxml, wxgtk, xvidcore) plus version 1.3.4 of the CImg library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 31, 2010 Report Share Posted October 31, 2010 Under Archlinux it is as simple as running "yaourt -Sy wxcam" in a console window. I'm, assuming yaourt = pacman :) As I've never heard of yaourt under Arch, but pacman being the norm for installing packages :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted October 31, 2010 Report Share Posted October 31, 2010 I'm, assuming yaourt = pacman :) As I've never heard of yaourt under Arch, but pacman being the norm for installing packages :D Actually "yaourt" is a pacman wrapper, which has the virtue of automatically parsing build scripts (PKGBUILDS), taking care of the missing dependencies, downloading the sources, compiling and outputting the final package. Such complex scripts are "dirty" in principle, but you will be amazed by the ease of the installation procedure- most of the times it's just typing the above, and nothing more than that. It's quite similar to Gentoo's emerge, but the structure of the PKGBUILD is much, much simpler (pure BASH). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 31, 2010 Report Share Posted October 31, 2010 Ah OK :) My initial thoughts were you had some weird keyboard layout and when you wrote pacman, it came out as yaourt. Never mind me :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boatman9 Posted November 1, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2010 I searched the Arch package database and found Zoneminder, wxcam, and motion. Maybe I should jump ship to Arch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted November 1, 2010 Report Share Posted November 1, 2010 I searched the Arch package database and found Zoneminder, wxcam, and motion. Maybe I should jump ship to Arch. You can give it a try in VirtualBox, and if it's OK for you, then go on. I wouldn't say that Arch is a geek distro, but it's not plain sailing, either: The only "system control center" is the console (OK, you can also install webmin if you like...), all the official management tools are run from the console, initscripts are more similar to BSD than other Linux distros, services have no runlevels, everything is updated before even you got some time to install it... and so on :P But on the other hand, it's a pure rolling distro (install and configure properly once, and then forget), and it leaves you absolute control over any system aspect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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