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Posted 2008/06/19

Simple on site tests of the webcams

While the ITS guys were hacking at the local WiFi link I tried out the wireless cameras we have for the site. This post has some un-exciting videos that at least proove the cameras work in the great out-doors.

I used the same ffmpeg settings as the motion captured movies.

ffmpeg -i c.combined.avi -ar 22050 -ab 32 -b 1024k -f flv -s 352x288 c.flv

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Andy seems shocked that something electronic is actually working on site.

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This video has the receiver deep in the VERA cabin with me walking with the camera outside the walls and putting it on the roof. Seems like the cameras take a while to sort themselves out when brightness changes dramatically. We don't think this will be an issue though as they will be setup in static positions.

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Bit of a panoramic of the site showing that we could actually mount a camera on a pole above a porta cabin. We might actually use the HQ pole now it doesn't have an AP on it.