William Chops Westfield wrote:
> Since video came up, I thought I'd ask this question that I've
> been thinking about...
>
>
> Problem definition:
>
> Our schools have closed circuit (or maybe cable) TV, over which
> the students broadcast a home-grown News/announcements/etc
> program for about 5 minutes each morning.  Currently they
> archive the shows to video tape, so the students doing the
> show can eventually watch themselves, but finding a particular
> 5 minute segment in a pile of multi-hour tapes can be quite
> a challenge.
>
>
> What I want:
>
> I'd like to find software (and hardware, but I assume that part
> is relatively easy) for a basically stand-alone, unattended box
> that could connect to the TV studio "output", sense when there
> is active/good video, and record that to a time-stamped file that
> would be accessible on the school computer network (I assume the
> "network accessible" part is reasonably easy as well.)  Momentary
> glitches should probably not cause a new file to be created, but
> perhaps there should be a maximum length allowed?  The automatic
> sensing of good signal and automatic recording to timestamped file
> is the important part.
>
> Does anyone know of anything that does this?
>   
The software I mentioned to Vitality may work. But it sounds like more 
of a custom written thing to me. Would be easier to take something 
already canned (like Palantir or Zoneminder) and modify it to fit your 
needs.
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