Dropcam: Another fire-and-forget camera system

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by gduffy • 17 years ago

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gduffy4• 17 years ago

Hey guys, in order to make this post more hacker-ish, I'm going to answer any technical questions I can here. I used to be the Principal Engineer at Xobni, so while I'm not a YC alum I've been around these parts for a little while :)

rickdangerous12• 17 years ago

I take it that you don't ship to the rest of the world?

gduffy4• 17 years ago

Right now, no, but it's in the works. We want to make sure that quality of service is just as good for non-U.S. customers before we ship anything internationally.

grourk• 17 years ago

What kind of video encoding software is on the device? Is it open source like ffmpeg (sans GPL components)?

gduffy4• 17 years ago

No, it's not open source. We use a custom H.264 encoder.

unwind• 17 years ago

Scary that it's a subscription-based service. I was expecting a stand-alone IP webcam, like those from Axis. This seems to be something else.

gduffy4• 17 years ago

We take data privacy very seriously. The online service component is the key to customer adoption of network cameras, because it is the only way for a non-technical user to have a camera up and running in less than 30 seconds.

Dropcam: Another fire-and-forget camera system

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