Re: [ProgSoc] Just Lay It To Rest

[Wim Pranata <wpranata@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Fri, 26 May 2000, Christian Kent wrote:

> My next big stupid idea is to buy 64GB of storage, which I think I saw for
> $400-$500, perhaps 128GB, put it in dispater, install MacOS X, and write a
> script that continually polls the webcam and writes compressed frames to
> disk.  Possibly restarting movie files every hour, and deleting them when
> storage is full.  This has the benefits of letting whoever wants to set up
> the webcam just install the standard spew-out-a-gif service;  we don't
> need to use CPU or storage resources on a machine with less of these than
> dispater has;  we can fine-tune compression settings to use very high
> temporal compression in the ProgSoc Room, via QuickTime scripting and some
> funky codecs;  and finally we might be able to switch on QuickTime server
> to do live streaming via UDP etc.  I think I can do this myself but if you
> all demand to have a vote on it to save me the trouble, be my guest  |-)

I think to get more disks for Ftoomsh is a better idea.


wim

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