How to do it...

Let's kick things off by taking a look at how we'll tackle the current recipe, since there are many possibilities we could explore. Capturing a scene can be done to achieve multiple aims, but we've decided to center our strengths on a CCTV feed. That being the idea, what elements do you think are needed in such a system? Having an idea about that will help us visualize the whole process, as there are going to be multiple phases. If we think about it in real-life terms, we'll probably need at least a camera than can capture the scene, a display where we can play the video back, and some sort of storage unit or transfer mechanism in order to move the data between the camera and the display. As you'll see, those same actors will ...

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