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Kerberos: Open-Source Video Surveillance

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Re: Kerberos: Open-Source Video Surveillance

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Post by spinax »

austincheney wrote: post #9
spijdar wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To add on to this -- the about page acknowledges how "many are confused" about the name but effectively brushes it off because "kerberos is a good name", then "it's not actually kerberos, but kerberos.io", followed by "it's a mouthful so we'll just say kerberos" (and the HN submission just says kerberos) I feel like the name really might be an impediment to the project. Not that people can't ever re-use names, but th…

I wonder if MIT trademarked Kerberos. https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/

US: quick search says Yes, at one time however it's was abandoned in 1994: https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:gm...

Current US trademark holder is a financial group: https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:gm...

Edit: it appears the USPTO has sent a notice refusing activation on the above due to requirements not met if I read this correctly: https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=88758894&caseType=SERIAL_...

Re: Kerberos: Open-Source Video Surveillance

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Post by Keyb0ardWarr10r »

GekkePrutser wrote: post #24
Johnyma22 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried Shinobi but gave up, I even spent some time on bug reports/issues/with their community. My major issue with Shinobi was each stream is processed by ffmpeg and I had 10+ cameras all requiring 10% cpu each to handle any object/motion detection. The cameras had object/motion detection functionality built in so I figured it made more sense to just do that work on the camera and not on CPU. I also tried offloading…

The problem with offloading that to the camera is that onvif doesn't seem to have a standard way to report this. I only need motion detection on one cam so it wasn't an issue. But good point, I wonder how Kerberos does this

It doesn't use the builtin ONVIF motion detection but instead processes every keyframe and does motion detection between the keyframes. So not every frame is being decoded to process, but enough to perform motion capture.

There's some interesting work w.r.t motion detection that doesn't actually require decoding the packets but rather looks at the motion vectors to estimate motion. That would save up a lot of resources..

Re: Kerberos: Open-Source Video Surveillance

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Post by dvfjsdhgfv »

rjzzleep wrote: post #7
spijdar wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To add on to this -- the about page acknowledges how "many are confused" about the name but effectively brushes it off because "kerberos is a good name", then "it's not actually kerberos, but kerberos.io", followed by "it's a mouthful so we'll just say kerberos" (and the HN submission just says kerberos) I feel like the name really might be an impediment to the project. Not that people can't ever re-use names, but th…

It actually is a really good name. But yeah, I had the same confusion.

It's a name that fits the project description well, but it's a very bad name for an open source security-related project. They could have as well named it OpenCV.

Re: Kerberos: Open-Source Video Surveillance

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Post by mirekrusin »

wigster wrote: post #27
spijdar wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To add on to this -- the about page acknowledges how "many are confused" about the name but effectively brushes it off because "kerberos is a good name", then "it's not actually kerberos, but kerberos.io", followed by "it's a mouthful so we'll just say kerberos" (and the HN submission just says kerberos) I feel like the name really might be an impediment to the project. Not that people can't ever re-use names, but th…

just rename as Fluffy

BigBro?

Re: Kerberos: Open-Source Video Surveillance

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Post by collsni »

Santosh83 wrote: post #25
spijdar wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To add on to this -- the about page acknowledges how "many are confused" about the name but effectively brushes it off because "kerberos is a good name", then "it's not actually kerberos, but kerberos.io", followed by "it's a mouthful so we'll just say kerberos" (and the HN submission just says kerberos) I feel like the name really might be an impediment to the project. Not that people can't ever re-use names, but th…

Much ado about nothing. We're adults and tech literate people and we can juggle more than one conflicting identifier in our heads considering we deal with stuff like C++ routinely. If the project is technically good and they market it well, people will get used to the name and learn to distinguish between this and the auth protocol.

Java and JavaScript

Re: Kerberos: Open-Source Video Surveillance

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Post by _huayra_ »

spijdar wrote: post #4
foodstances wrote: post #2

Does it support Kerberos authentication?

To add on to this -- the about page acknowledges how "many are confused" about the name but effectively brushes it off because "kerberos is a good name", then "it's not actually kerberos, but kerberos.io", followed by "it's a mouthful so we'll just say kerberos" (and the HN submission just says kerberos) I feel like the name really might be an impediment to the project. Not that people can't ever re-use names, but th…

They could just call it kerbaros instead to clear up the confusion. /s

This reminds me of the way the word for "today" in French is aujourd'hui. "hui" meant "today" in old French, but it sounds like oui ("yes"). If you split it apart, aujourd'hui means something like "of the day of today".

"of the open source video surveillance software of Kerberos"

Re: Kerberos: Open-Source Video Surveillance

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Post by stemc43 »

Johnyma22 wrote: post #18
GekkePrutser wrote: post #12

Interesting! I was just setting up Shinobi but this looks really good too. I don't like the idea of having one docker per camera though.. But I'll give it a try.

I tried Shinobi but gave up, I even spent some time on bug reports/issues/with their community. My major issue with Shinobi was each stream is processed by ffmpeg and I had 10+ cameras all requiring 10% cpu each to handle any object/motion detection. The cameras had object/motion detection functionality built in so I figured it made more sense to just do that work on the camera and not on CPU. I also tried offloading…

ive also spent entirely way too much time trying to get shinobi and zoneminder to work and had to give up.

xeoma is paid but runs in docker on linux just fine

Re: Kerberos: Open-Source Video Surveillance

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Post by chedabob »

vhodges wrote: post #13
rjzzleep wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It actually is a really good name. But yeah, I had the same confusion.

A better name for a multi-headed security system would be Cerberus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus

Already taken by this Android app though https://www.cerberusapp.com/
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