Re: Geovision and Idratek

["Karam Karam" <kzkaram@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

How much PC grunt you require depends on what you are doing with
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cameras. Perhaps if you can describe your present setup and the sort=20
of things that it does then I might be able to give a better guess.=20
For example how many cameras (I think you said 16), resolution,=20
colour/BW, frame rate per camera (presumably they're running=20
simultaneously)?

I'm not sure of how much you know about the Cortex imaging features,=20
but probably two of the more resource intensive functions are pre-
event recording and image based motion detection (with various=20
filtering parameters and user defined grids). So if these are the=20
type of functions you'd expect to use and depending on the setings=20
then the grunt requirement goes up accordingly.

Selling the Geovision kit seems a bit drastic - hope you have more=20
luck from technical support this time.

Karam
IDRATEK LTD




--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "ReynoldsB"
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> Hi Karam, I have tried to contact Geovision but could not supply=20
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> information they required.
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> I think I now have all the info, too much boxed kit, so I will=20
contact them
> again today.
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> Maybe I need to sell my Geovision kit?
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> If I was to run Idratek with the camera cards on the same computer=20
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> the overheads? Would I need to get a vastly more powerful machine?
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> At the moment I am running Geovision on a P4 2.41GHz with 2GB of=20
RAM. Would
> Idratek and the cameras run okay on this?
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> B.
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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On=20
Behalf Of
> Karam Karam
> Sent: 08 December 2007 22:53
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Geovision and Idratek
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> I think Allan may be right. Have you tried contacting Geovision=20
> technical support? Provide them with any relevant information that=20
> your PC or the any digitiser card labels may have and ask them if=20
> they have drivers that allow the camera images to be=20
viewed/captured=20
> by popular Windows applications.
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> As Chris mentioned elsewhere we generally recommend the IVC200=20
> digitiser card. This has 4 seperate digitiser chips so you can get=20
> 30fps on each channel without suffering multiplexing issues. The=20
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> is a bit redundant for IDRATEK applications. These cards are around=20
> =A3100-120 so I suppose it would be an expensive swap when you've=20
> already spent money on Geovision cards. :-(
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> Karam
> IDRATEK LTD
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> --- In ukha_d@yahoogroups. <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
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> "ReynoldsB" <brian.g.reynolds@>=20
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> > Hi Allan, that is not an answer I wanted to hear :-(
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> > Much appreciated though!
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> > Do you know how I can tell what generation of card it is please?
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> > The cameras are indeed coax as you suspected.
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> > From: ukha_d@yahoogroups. <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
com
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> > Allan Smith
> > Sent: 07 December 2007 10:56
> > To: ukha_d@yahoogroups. <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
com
> > Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Geovision and Idratek
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> > Brian,=20
> > I think you have one of the older generation Geovision cards,=20
> either=20
> > series 1 or series 2. These cards have proprietary chips, with=20
> > proprietary drivers and security chips on them to only work
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> the=20
> > geo-vision software. I am willing to be corrected but AFAIK
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> > cannot use them natively with any other applications. There
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> other=20
> > members on the list who may have obtained an SDK to write
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> > applications but even then I am not sure of the abilities.=20
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> > Assuming I have guessed right about the Geovision card you
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> > I the cameras you have are COAX attached and are not IP in any=20
way.=20
> > Geovision supply their own Active X control to allow you to
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> > camera output or you can snapshot still images/AVI's to a
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> > I think you need to look at getting a different capture card=20
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> > the normal BT748(?) chipsets which as discussed other=20
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> > can then access.=20
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> > Cheers
> > Allan
> > --- In ukha_d@yahoogroups. <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>=20
> com, "Karam
> > Karam" <kzkaram@> wrote:
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> > > Can any other relevant Windows applications see your
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> > > available as a selectable source in the likes of Paint
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pro,=20
> > > Skype, or such?
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> > > Karam
> > > IDRATEK LTD
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com,
> > "ReynoldsB" <brian.g.reynolds@>=20
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> > > > Hi all,
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> > game
> > > > controllers" line and below it reads,
> > > > GV650(S) Audio #A
> > > > GV650(S) Audio #B
> > > > GV650(S) Video Capture #A
> > > > GV650(S) Video Capture #B
> > > > GVDSP Audio #A
> > > > GVDSP Video Capture #A
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> > > > Does this mean Windows can see the cards? Nothing says
WDM..
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