Objectives

Implement a digital video recorder kind dash cam with a Raspberry Pi and a web cam.

• Install and configure Raspbian OS on a Raspberry Pi.
• Install and configure the mpeg libraries and packages required (Stremer, FFmpeg) for recording video from a webcam.
• Investigate use Video4Linux API to handle video devices family operating systems Linux.
• Designing a video buffer that maintains a constant size of the recording.
• Describe a method to transfer the video to a server automatically when the availability of a network fast enough to transmit video files using FTP.
• Construct a video file from the raw data obtained from the webcam.

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