Hi all,
I am wondering if members here would advise on a great video capture card one can use for survellance and other uses (such as capturing a telescope data for astronomy) that supports many cameras in real-time (all/most channels active) and also supports remote/local viewing with protocols for supporting full tilt/motion/zoom. As for the camera itself, I'd like to have at least one that not only supports full tilt/motion/zoom but can also might support 0 lux, color, but perhaps also support IR/uV as cheaply as possible? Yeah, I know it might be too expensive for my budget but hey, I'd like to know what my options are! ;)
I just happened to find something like:
Lorex 16 Port PCI Card Digital Video Recorder - 120 FPS Model No: QLR1660 Features:
* 16 channel (camera) triplex PC card solution (view, record, playback simultaneously) * Local and Remote internet Monitoring Capability * Digital Recording of live video to PC's hard drive * View up to 16 locations simultaneously * Compatible with Windows operating system * 1 / 8 / 16 / Full Screen / Sequencing * Individual selection of security alarm features * Digital freeze and zoom-in * Easy search and playback of digitally recorded video * Password security protection * External alarm option
Minimum System Requirements:
* Pentium 4 - 1.6 GHz or higher processor * Microsoft Windows operating system * Optical drive * 256 MB RAM * Separate video card with 64MB minimum (broadband connection required for remote connection)
Features:
* 16 channel (camera) triplex PC card solution (view, record, playback simultaneously) * Local and Remote internet Monitoring Capability * Digital Recording of live video to PC's hard drive * View up to 16 locations simultaneously * Compatible with Windows operating system * 1 / 8 / 16 / Full Screen / Sequencing * Individual selection of security alarm features * Digital freeze and zoom-in * Easy search and playback of digitally recorded video * Password security protection * External alarm option
Minimum System Requirements:
* Pentium 4 - 1.6 GHz or higher processor * Microsoft Windows operating system * Optical drive * 256 MB RAM * Separate video card with 64MB minimum (broadband connection required for remote connection)
* Supports 16 cameras and 4 assignable audio channels * Supports pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras with Pilco D or equivalent protocol * Supplied software enables local network and remote internet access * 120fps recording speed * PC requires 62MB or larger video card, 20GB available HD space and a 1.3GHz CPU * Includes Lorex(tm) application software CD
Notice above Pilco D or equivalent protocol... Is this a propreitary protocol or supported under Fedora???
It is also not clear how to 'breakout' the 16-channel inputs to support other interfaces supporting other camera devices such as camcorders, webcams, VCR, MXC, S-? and so on.
and this card is priced near $300.00 at bargain rates, or so it seems...
Also, this card may be obsolete (at least it is no longer in the Lorex website) and there is very little information as to programming the card for local use (such as motion detection, for example) - but this is just one that I found at the moment.
Perhaps there are better cards out there?
Does anyone have any advice as to the card/camera that would be great for use under Linux/Fedora?
Thanks! Dan
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