Re: PictureTel Camera's and 4 port card

[shb*NO*SPAM*@comporium.net (Si Ballenger)]

On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 10:43:56 -0500, "P. Totaro"
<PTotaro@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hello Everyone and thanks for the help.
>
>I've been looking at DVR cards for a home security system viewable over the
>web. I was wondering if anyone had some answers to some questions I have.
>First I'll tell you my plan. I want to use some Picturetel  PTZ-1 and 2
>PZT-2N (these are teleconferencing cameras)  run to a pc with an 4 port DVR
>card and a 4 port pci serial card (for PTZ control RS232) using BDLCAM to
>control the camera's and ? software for video steaming. I believe this will
>work but I will need 4 instances of BDLCAM running at the same time to view
>all for camera's.( Update: I have got BDLCam working for PTZ control but I
>am trying to use Webcamxp for streaming the video but can't get it to see my
>DVR card. The Dvr card has a Techwell TW6000 chip and I think the problem is
>that it doesn't use WDM drivers? Any thoughts?) What I would like to do is
>just use the software that comes with the DVR card (some form of Pico2000 I
>think) for displaying all 4 camera's, streaming and PTZ control. The only
>problem here is I'm not sure if there is a DVR card software that will do
>the PictureTel PTZ RS232 control. I have gotten the code some someone at
>PictureTel but not sure of any DVR software that will let me edit the PTZ
>data. Has anyone had success with PictureTel PTZ camera's and a DVR card?
>Anyway just thought I would see if anyone would have a better plan. Thank's
>for your help, Paul

Your problem is probably giong to be the capture card you are
using. If it is a single capture chip card then you will probably
be stuck using the software supplied with it (there are some
~bootleg 4-port cards on ebay that use hacked  Pico2000 software
that appaently has problems). Probably the best bet is to get a
capture card that has four capture chips on it. These are usually
seen by software as four seperate capture devices allowing the
four cams to be seen at the same time.