If the camera is running on Windows, you can probably stream directly from the device using ffmpeg. See here for details: http://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/DirectShow You would set the input as the camera and the output as a file, and add any codec options you want, etc... I'm sure there's probably a similar mode for Linux. If nothing else, you can probe the camera to see what modes it supports, etc..., to make sure you're picking one that works, ❧ Brian Mathis On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:33 AM, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Arun Khan wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 8:10 PM, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Does anyone know of a DVR that runs Linux that does NOT USE Active-X, > >> and/or allows logging in directly? > > > > MythTV? It has a web UI. > > No joy, either this, nor zoneminder. Right now, we just have motion > running on the servers that have the USB cameras plugged in; after the > recent grief we had with the last upgrade to CentOS, when I wound up > moving one camera that just would not work - the top 10% of the screen was > fine, and the rest green, and the other I had to change the resolution to > 240x360 to get it to not do that, my manager asked me to look into > appliances that we could manage from our servers. > > We've found Zmodo, and another one, but with *both* of them, though the > DVR that comes with the set is running Linux, web control *REQURES* IE, > and you can't log in directly using ssh or telnet. > > mark > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos