Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
The second plugin is about the web server settings:
• The path to the directory contains the final web server HTML pages.
This implies that you can modify the existing pages with a little effort
or create new ones based on those provided.
• Force a special port to be used. Like I said previously, port use is dedicated
for a server. You define here which will be the one for this service.
• You can discover many others by asking:
debian@arm:~$ ./mjpg_streamer --output "output_http.so --help"
Apart from
input_uvc
and
output_http,
you have other available
plugins to play with. Let's take a look at the
plugins
directory.
Another tool for the webcam
The
Mjpg_streamer
project is dedicated for streaming over network, but it is not
the only one. For instance, do you have any specific needs such as monitoring your
house/son/cat/Jon Snow figurine?
buuuuzzz
: if you answered
yes
to the last one, you just defined
yourself as a geek.
Well, in that case the
Motion
project is for you; just install the
motion
package and
start it with the default
motion.conf
configuration. You will then record videos
and pictures of any moving object/person that will be detected. As
MJPG-Streamer
motion aims to be a low CPU consumer, it works very well on BeagleBone Black.
