RE: CCTV cameras - feed to PC s/w

["Paul" <p-gale@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks Phil,



I remember having a look at your site before but never installed it as I
don't have a Linux box currently. Any idea of minimum spec PC for running
it? Also, is there any way of monitoring several streams simultaneously?



Cheers,



Paul.

-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Coombes [mailto:philip.coombes@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 10 May 2003 19:02
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] CCTV cameras - feed to PC s/w



Hi Paul,

If you've got an old box that you can run Linux on, and you can get hold of
a couple of video capture cards, then you could try my software,
ZoneMinder.
It's open source and free and available from http://www.zoneminder.com if
you want to have a look. It takes care of all the switching between sources
that you might want, you can view your video stream live, plus it will
optionally generate X10 commands on motion detection, or respond to them to
start recording. It records events as mpegs or a series of stills and
records before the event as well as during and after. There's also various
other things like notification emails and everything controlled by a user
friendly web interface.

>From what you've said it would seem just right for you, but have a look
anyway and give it a try if you like it.

Cheers,

Phil,

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul" <p-gale@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 4:45 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] CCTV cameras - feed to PC s/w


> OK, it's so dead here today I decided to finally put up my CCTV
camera's
(4x low lux B&W IR type and a colour Comfort doorphone cam).
>
> I've got an Extron MAV-128 video matrix switcher and I'm going to feed
them into that for the time being. I've also got a Tivo modded for CCTV
recording (but only constant roll-over recording - not ideal). I really
want
to record any movement from any of the 5 camera's onto a PC. I'm looking
for
s/w and ways of doing this. I guess there are two ways of doing this:
>
> 1) fit PIR's with each camera (which I will be doing in some of the
locations anyway) and have Comfort/HV/ACE switch the active zone to the PC
which would then record via some simple software (what s/w???)
> 2) Use some kind of multi-input camera card (as discussed many times
on
this list) and let that decide which zone has been triggered by it's
software
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Paul.
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