• Re: CCTV capture card for new PC & Zoneminder -Update

    From Davey@davey@example.invalid to uk.comp.os.linux on Fri Oct 18 17:45:27 2024
    From Newsgroup: uk.comp.os.linux

    On 13 Sep 2024 20:19:28 +0100 (BST)
    Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

    Davey <davey@example.invalid> wrote:
    I'm sort of lost here, any help welcome.

    Have a look at USB adapters. SD video is not that high bit rate,
    especially if the adapter is compressing. No idea of the marketplace, although I have a $7 composite video USB capture that's probably
    awful. BNC is just composite video I think - do they power from there
    or external power?

    If you have a lot of USB devices consider extra USB PCIe cards, but 4
    behind a USB 3 hub is probably ok.

    Theo

    Today, there was a hint of sanity. I played around with the Zoneminder Monitors' Sources configuration, disabling the card inputs with no
    camera, and other variations of the Source inputs. Briefly, I saw a live
    image of the outside of the house, but when I tried to reproduce it on a different input, it would not, and I could not get it back on the
    previously working one. But, I have at last seen the Source reference
    for some tabs on the Console screen go green instead of red, albeit
    it with a blue screen, and I have seen the ZM Log produce only "Capturing......." messages instead of a stream of pink-coloured
    alarms, the wording of which means nothing to me. I will next
    concentrate on trying to get the working image back, and hoping to
    proceed from there.

    Wish me luck!
    --
    Davey.

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