Re: residential outside TV camera - suggestions?

["Bob Worthy" <securinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<rory@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1112508921.135265.162300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> The quality will depend on the camera used, lens, cable and
> connections, as well as the DVR.
>
> A PC based DVR will not be as good quality as a Stand Alone RTOS DVR.
>
> That said, when you try to playback the RTOS DVR, on the PC to save or
> enhance, it will be less quality than the PC DVR.
>
> Best option would be an RTOS DVR, and a simple Video Capture card in
> your PC. Only use the Capture card when you want to save the DVR's
> video to an Avi File. This way you will be getting 740x480 resolution
> which is very good on the PC. The AVI would be huge (80MB for every 10
> seconds approx), so you would use Movie Maker to convert it to a WMV
> file (drops to 500k for every 80MB AVI file approx), and then copy that
> to CD or USB. etc.
>
> Best of both worlds would be a PC DVR and an RTOS DVR. Loop out from
> the RTOS DVR to the PC. It can double as a high quality capture card
> also, using something like VidCap from Microsoft, free video capture
> software,or AmCap, you can capture video from each single input one at
> a time, when you need to save recorded video. This way you are getting
> the video from the RTOS DVR which is going to generally be better. Make
> sure the RTOS DVR is something like Wavelet and record at at least
> 15fps, as you can use your PC DVR for remote video, you wont need to
> worry about the wavelet slow network speeds, use Mpeg4 for the PC DVR.
> Wavelet is better quality than Mpeg4, but slower over the network, and
> larger files so it runs out quicker. Just let your PC do the long
> recordings with features, and the RTOS do the high quality.
>
> Rory

Try to get some sleep Rory. All of this at 2:15 in the morning? How many
amps are you running on?

Bob4Secur