Re: splitting composite video signal

[Carl Navarro <cnavarro@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2 Jul 2006 15:25:06 -0700, listerofsmeg01@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>
>DecaturTxCowboy wrote:
>> The composite video cams go
>> in to a switcher that has both a composite video and ethernet output.
>> The cams can be viewed on any computer on the network. Once you get the
>> composite video into an ethernet format, you have more possibilities for
>> distribution.
>
>Can you expand on this a bit? What do you mean by "switcher"? Is this a
>device that cycles through the various inputs on a timed basis?
>In what format is the video put on the wire? Is it some standard like
>MPEG-4?
>
>The whole point of the split is to get imagery to my PC network too
>(and to the Internet),  but the quality is not brilliant, and I really
>wanted to have an easy to access good quality source on my telly -
>hence the two seperate systems.

Any video card with RF input can fit in your PC and you can modulate
the cameras with an RF modulator.  We use the Channel Master units in
bars, but the little 3 channel unit that shows up on eBay will do in a
pinch and modulate 10-15 TV's.  Here we give it UHF channels 65,67 and
72 and all tv's can tune it.

Try
http://www.merchantamerica.com/utahsatellite/index.php?ba=view_category&category=3535
for a source of RF modulators.

Carl Navarro