ISight as a security system?

I am coming here because I can’t think of a better place to start. I have a need to place a video camera to find out who is damaging a gate in our driveway. My problem is there is very little room to place equipment. Some people I have talked to I build up a specialized PC with one of those small mother boards, but I do not want to go into the manufacturing business : ) I would like to buy a mac mini and iSight and use it as a security system, however I have seen no indication that the iSight software is capable of recording to the disk a record with less than 30 fps. Also how much disk space would 24 hours of recording take up. Another requirement would be to have the software boot on power up, and record until it is powered down. Can anyone point me to some place I could get some more help?

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/07/01/isight.html
You can set the fps to 1 if you want and that would allow quite a lot of recording. Just turn it one and let it run all day. Set it to MPEG-4 and maybe limit to 750 kbits per sec initially.
QT Broadcaster is free. And follow the directions the interface won't be too intimidating.

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