Re: video security system- Should I save to a dedicated PVR or to a PC. What about remote viewing etc.

["David Jensen" <DJNews1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks again for your input.

David

"Lucas Tam" <REMOVEnntp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "David Jensen" <DJNews1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> > I think that video would be preferable unless there were a large
> > number of stills taken per minute.  I would certainly hate to miss
> > some action becuase it happened between frames.  You are right though
> > that a still picture can have a much higher resolution that a single
> > frame from a video feed.  Maybe one decent sill per second would be
> > better than 30 FPS video, I don't know.
>
> If you hook up your video system to your security system, you can do a
> smart (or motion) trigger. Basically the video system will archive
> pictures before the event and after the event and notify you via email
> or pager. Some video systems can do this without integrating into the
> security system by doing video motion detection but this is slightly
> less accurrate.
>
>
> Most video servers allow upto 1 FPS when you're doing JPEG uploads... so
> it's quite a few frames. Otherwise they can also stream 15 - 30 FPS
> MJPEG video to web clients (not sure if all servers have the ability to
> archive MJPEG streams though).
>
> Anyhow, just an option. For a school, I would opt for a video server,
> DVR, or a packaged monitoring system since these are easy to maintain
> without hassle. The video server option is probably the cheapest.
>
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