RE: CCTV cameras - feed to PC s/w

["Martin" <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

Me too

I'd love it give it a go and have lots of 'old' machines to try it out
on.

Please do an ISO soon, your software sounds great but i currently don't
have any Linux boxes
Cheers
Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: Mick Furlong [mailto:hiltoneltd@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 10 May 2003 20:43
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] CCTV cameras - feed to PC s/w


Can I second Pauls comments about an ISO I have zero knowledge of Linux
but
an ISO of zoneminder might convert me!

Please please ahh go on ya know ya want to;)

Mick
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul [mailto:p-gale@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 10 May 2003 20:33
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] CCTV cameras - feed to PC s/w


An ISO would be great as I have no installation knowledge of Linux (I
guess I should give it a go sometime though, but it seems so much
effort!).
Sounds good though. Do you know if you can use those USB video adapters
(ie.
4 or 5 at once?)



Paul.

-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Coombes [mailto:philip.coombes@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 10 May 2003 20:20
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] CCTV cameras - feed to PC s/w



Hi Paul,

For four cameras or so you can probably get by with a 300Mhz PC with
about
256Mb of RAM and maybe 10-20Gb of disk maximum. It all depends how you
configure it really, so if you have all your cameras flying along at
25fps
then something a lot more recent would be required. If you're happy to
sample at 5fps then the above will do fine.

It will monitor as many cameras as you have configured, they are all
done
simultaneously, the exception being say if all 4 inputs are used on a
capture card with only one DSP when it will round robin them and so
technically it not actually simultaneous as they take turns but it's
only
a
fraction of a second and that is a hardware limitation that all
software
will share. I have 5 cameras on my system (2 true video, 2 USB and one
IP)
and it's an old 266Mhz P2, works just fine with no need for any kind
of
video switching at all.

It has been suggested that I come up with an ISO image for people to
install
Linux+ZoneMinder to make life easier and this is something I plan to
do as
soon as I get time.

Cheers,

Phil,

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul" <p-gale@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 8:14 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] CCTV cameras - feed to PC s/w


> 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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