David Jones vpac org>
November 23rd 07, 04:07 AM
Also, our system to be targeted for this (separate to previous emails) is a 4
way video capture system.
Does ICOP market anything tin this area?
We want to simultaneously capture to disk (with hardware processing to say
MPEG 2 or 4 prior to saving to disk) 4 video inputs.
This is not a surveillance thing where 4 way PCI capture cards compose one
video stream from 4 by placing the camera contents in ¼ of the same
screen/image.
Our system to be targeted for is a 4 way video capture system.
We want to simultaneously capture to disk (with hardware processing to say
MPEG 2 or 4 prior to saving to disk) 4 video inputs.
This is not a surveillance thing where 4 way PCI capture cards compose one
video stream from 4 by placing the camera contents in ¼ of the same
screen/image.
The system is meant to capture the 4 streams away from base over a long
period of time so its a performance v storage issue v power.
We could use a high performance PC with 4 PCI solots/video capture cards,
and a terrabyte or two of storage but that is not practical.
We are thinking of using a moderate capability PC (say mini ITX 1.3-1.7GHz)
with 4 way video capture , hardware compression on card and DMA to the
harddrive/s. Ideally we would use one capture card with 4 channels but they
would need to work simulataneously, not time/resource slicing/overlay.
Alternatively we would use 4 PCI Video capture cards (need PCI riser with
mini ITX board).
Any thoughts or recommended ng/discussion groups for this?
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David Jones
Software Developer
(Embeddded Systems)
Victorian Partnership of Advanced Computing
Melbourne, Victoria Australia
way video capture system.
Does ICOP market anything tin this area?
We want to simultaneously capture to disk (with hardware processing to say
MPEG 2 or 4 prior to saving to disk) 4 video inputs.
This is not a surveillance thing where 4 way PCI capture cards compose one
video stream from 4 by placing the camera contents in ¼ of the same
screen/image.
Our system to be targeted for is a 4 way video capture system.
We want to simultaneously capture to disk (with hardware processing to say
MPEG 2 or 4 prior to saving to disk) 4 video inputs.
This is not a surveillance thing where 4 way PCI capture cards compose one
video stream from 4 by placing the camera contents in ¼ of the same
screen/image.
The system is meant to capture the 4 streams away from base over a long
period of time so its a performance v storage issue v power.
We could use a high performance PC with 4 PCI solots/video capture cards,
and a terrabyte or two of storage but that is not practical.
We are thinking of using a moderate capability PC (say mini ITX 1.3-1.7GHz)
with 4 way video capture , hardware compression on card and DMA to the
harddrive/s. Ideally we would use one capture card with 4 channels but they
would need to work simulataneously, not time/resource slicing/overlay.
Alternatively we would use 4 PCI Video capture cards (need PCI riser with
mini ITX board).
Any thoughts or recommended ng/discussion groups for this?
--
David Jones
Software Developer
(Embeddded Systems)
Victorian Partnership of Advanced Computing
Melbourne, Victoria Australia