[FFmpeg-user] FFMpeg question on Raspberry Pi

[Fred Kemp]

Thanks about the USB tip.  I’m trying to  concatenate automatically, however.   We have many Arlo cameras where we CAN connect to the internet.  Otherwise, you’re right, we could just use a trail cam but the time someone would need to be spending going through assembling videos would not be worth it.  

Any programmers I can contact?

Sent from my iPhone

> On Feb 22, 2022, at 7:46 PM, Adam Nielsen via ffmpeg-user <ffmpeg-user at ffmpeg.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 
>>     I need help in trying to develop a security camera for a remote 
>> area of a farm.  There is no internet in some places there and some of 
>> the motion videos may be long, e.g., 20 to 30 minutes.
>> 
>>     So, I would like to be able to record these longer motion videos on 
>> a Raspberry Pi locally, concatenate them and then be able to somehow 
>> quickly review the compilation/concatenated video on a video player and 
>> then download the snippet(s) of video to a smart phone.
> 
> You're going to have to do a fair bit of programming/scripting to get
> this I suspect, as I don't think there's anything around that can do
> this out of the box on a Pi.
> 
> However, since you won't want to use an SD card for this (as writing
> all the video will kill the SD card very quickly) you'll probably need
> to use a USB external hard drive.  In this case you could just buy two,
> and swap them over when you visit the camera.  Then back on another
> computer you can flick through the video on the USB hard drive.
> 
>> 1.     Recording motion using Motion or MotionEyes to a particular
>>    directory for the day,
>> 2.     Then using FFMpeg to possibly automatically concatenate the
>>    videos in that directory into one bigger file, and
>> 3.     Then using a video player to scroll through the video and
>>    download a particular segment to my iPhone.
> 
> Have you considered using a game camera instead of a Raspberry Pi?  They
> have motion sensors built in, they'll capture video of the motion, and
> save each event as a different video file.  Then you can visit it, swap
> over the memory card, and watch all the videos on any device you can
> plug the card into (even a smartphone if you have a card reader for
> it).  They run off batteries and include infrared lights to capture
> video at night, so they are well suited for remote areas where you
> don't need a live video feed.
> 
> The only real benefit of using the Pi would be that you get
> Ethernet/WiFi on it for remote access/live video, but if you won't be
> using that because it's too far away from a WiFi network and you don't
> want to use WiFi extenders or dig a cable, using a game camera will
> probably save you a huge amount of effort.
> 
> Cheers,
> Adam.
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