mod_video 0.1.0

mod_video was created in order for me to be able to check on my apartment while on holiday using a camcorder hooked up to my Linux machine. It it an Apache module.

A few months earlier I had picked up a BTTV-based (Bt848) frame grabber card from the leftovers bin, and although I was able to make it work I cant say that it was very impressive.

The software that came with it just locked up my machine under Windows, and the software available under Linux wasnt too hot either. The image quality can at best be described as questionable.

The module was written the night before I was leaving for my holiday, and being the first time I had used the video4linux API, I had to pick apart a few programs written by other people in order to figure out how to make things work. The documentation I was able to find on the net didnt really answer all my questions and at times it was just confusing.

I hadnt written anything that encodes JPG or PNG images before either, so I had to figure out how libpng and libjpeg work as well. Hopefully I didnt screw up too badly.