A simple DVR application.

Smaug (/smaʊɡ/) is a dragon and the main antagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit. He is a powerful and fearsome dragon who really cared about his posessions so he set up IP cameras to monitor his stuff.

1. Install leiningen.
2. Install ffmpeg, ffplay, and ffprobe.
3. Clone this repository and navigate to the root directory.
4. lein uberjar

$ java -jar smaug-0.1.0-standalone.jar --help
usage: java -jar smaug-0.1.0-standalone.jar [options]

options:
  -c, --config PATH  /etc/smaug/config.json  Path to json config file.
  -d, --display                              Watch videos as they are recording
  -h, --help

{
  "storage-directory": "/home/amaricich/videos/smaug/",
  "segments-minutes": 1,
  "max-segments": 2,
  "cameras": [
    {
      "name": "TestCamera",
      "url": "rtsp://user:[email protected]:554/media/video1"
    }
  ]
}

• storage-directory: The location recordings will be stored.
• segments-minutes: The length in minutes of each recording.
  • eg: If set to 60, each recording file will be an hour long.
• max-segments: The number of recording files that will be kept.
  • If segments-minutes is set to 60 and max-segments is set to 24, one days worth of recordings will be stored.
  • Once this threshold is met, the oldest recording for each stream will be removed.
• cameras: A list of cameras or streams you want to record.
  • name: A unique identifier you want to use to identify the stream. This will be the name of the subdirectory your files will be stored.
    • If name is set to AwesomeStream, your video will be stored in /home/amaricich/videos/smaug/AwesomeStream.
  • url: The URL of the stream you want to record.

Recordings are stored in the following format:

[name][date-]-[time_].mp4

TestCamera2019-08-06-12_29_843.mp4

Copyright © 2019 Alexander Maricich

This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0 which is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0.