RE: Bird box recording?

[Paul Gale <groups2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Many thanks everyone for the great replies - I'll feed all these back
to my friend :)

Paul.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Steve Morgan
> Sent: 01 April 2009 22:00
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Bird box recording?
>
> I equipped my birdbox with a small camera
> (http://www.henrys.co.uk/cctv/pro240.htm)
from Henry's CCTV.
>
> For capture, I use a Hauppauge WinTV USB device.
>
> The first year I ran it, I used a motion-detection app to capture
still
> images, then used another application to combine the many JPEGs into
an
> AVI
> file. I can't remember exactly which apps, but I could find out if you
> wanted.
>
> However, I found that using motion detection was somewhat unsatisfying
> as it
> missed the briefest moments and you couldn't really get a feel for the
> timespan over which things were happening.
>
> Subsequently, I attached the WinTV to a server and ran Windows Media
> Encoder
> 24 hours a day for about 6 weeks. A Kix script cycled the video files
> every
> hour. Total video captured ran to 400GB! The fun, of course, came in
> filtering out the boring bits.
>
> It's an interesting exercise.
>
> Steve
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of
> Paul Gale
> Sent: 01 April 2009 09:29
> To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
> Subject: [ukha_d] Bird box recording?
>
> Does anyone have a CCTV bird box recording solution? A friend wants to
> set
> something up in a bird box - possibly motion controlled.
>
> Any recommendations as to camera types/software and other kit?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
>
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