CCTV recording

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Ive got a wireless infrared camera setup outside with a reciever that plugs into my tv via a phono lead and I was wanting to know what I would need hardware wise to have it plugged into my pc so I could setup motion detection recording with something like digi watcher.
I used to be able to plug it in through my ati X800 but know ive got 8800 it doesnt come with same lead dont think you can input to it so was wondering what card I would need.....any ideas?

Needs to work on Vista 64bit aswell

thanks
 
I have a couple of camera's.

You can get a cheap card via an auction site for around £20 which will do the job but the software will use a lot of resources from your machine as it's a manipulated chinese version. You can update the software to a legit version for a second fee of $40 or approx £20, this gives you a better more stable version of the same software. Checkout PICO2000.

However if you want a decent package Geovision are supposed to be about the best, mainly for software and functionallity, they cost around £100 for a card that can support up to 4 cams and record a max of 12fps accross all cards or 3FPS per cam using 4 cams. Many cheaper cards promise faster FPS but the small print often rates the this at 1/4 of the resolution and can be an interlaced rate so you get a jagged small image which is practically unusable. Geovision offer a genuine PAL video standard with 12FPS so at 6 full frames a second with a couple of cameras you'll have more than you need.

If you have deep pockets the top end cards will do hundreds of FPS across multiple cameras but otherwise the 250 series cards are ok.

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