Re: Multi port CCTV capture cards - Geovision, Avermedia etc

["Philip Coombes" <philip.coombes@xxxxxxx>]

Yes, it was those cards. Actually thinking about it the LML was a good
price
as it was freebie for development but you're right shipping is expensive
and
you have to patch the kernel. The Ituner Spectra 8 though I got for about
$300, plus another $30 for the expansion card to take it to 8 ports.
Shipping wasn't too bad either so I ended up paying about £200 or so
for an
eight port card which I thought was ok value-wise, plus there were no
kernel
patches to do. Using 4 ports it's full rate (25fps) with the expansion
board
it drops to around 10 for any doubled up devices but I usually find 10fps
is
the maximum I use anyway.

For 9 ports though you'd need a couple, unless you can live with three of
those Osprey 100 type cards. I think they have only one capture chipset on
them so with three inputs you'd probably be around 5-8fps each. They are
dead cheap though ($99 each from Ituner and they usually discount) and I've
seen that kind of card available from several places in the UK.

Phil,

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Edgar" <yahoogroups@azimov.demon.co.uk>
To: <ukha_d@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Multi port CCTV capture cards - Geovision, Avermedia
etc


> On Thursday 15 January 2004 17:42, Philip Coombes wrote:
> > I have a couple of
> > other 8 port cards that weren't too expensive and are supported
so it's
not
> > really been a priority up until now.
>
> So are those the Ituner Spectra 8 and the Linux Media Labs LMLBT44? I
looked
> at those but they were too expensive as I want to put in 9 cameras,
which
> would need three cards. The only other one I've found tracing down the
> cardlist in the video4linux documentation is this one
>
> http://www.grandtec.com/xguard.htm
>
> which costs US$299 for the 9 port version. It looks like support for
this
was
> added to the Linux kernel in October so I can patch it in if need be,
but
the
> frame rate looks pretty poor (1.5 to 2 fps). The other problem is that
there
> aren't any european stockists and the USA online retailers don't look
> inclined to ship internationally. So, any other suggestions for cards?
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Steven
>
>
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