Hello,
While surfing the web looking for an answer for the problem mentioned below, I came across this forum. And I found some interesting topics, unfortunatelly none of them could solve the problem I have with a PC setup using 4 camera's and a wave-p 9404 card.
Some explenation first:
I have 4 camera's:
Those camera's are attached via UTP (8xbalun) to the 9404 card.
The PC has the following spec's:
- Pentium4 1,7GHz
- 640 MB RAM
- 320 GB discspace
- videocard: NVIDA Gforce G2200
- OS winXP SP3 all updates, no other software.
- settings for visual styles in XP: no visual styles
I installed the Harmony CCTV server software/drivers so the camera's are no longer recognized as wave-p but as "SAA7130 video capture card" camera's.
In this way I can use WebcamXP to setup the camera system.
The setup of the camera's in WebcamXP is all fine, they are working very good also the nightvision is good.
I'm using Webcam XP in "surveilance mode" (all camera's on screen)
The problem: When there is movement on 2 camera's at the same time, sometimes the video-stream is not real-time but very slow, like image-for-image (stuttering)... on some of the four camera's it is working fine, on the others it is not. The CPU of the PC is then 100%.
The 9404 card can handle 100fps PAL, 120 fps NTFS... if I should believe the specs.
Could this problem be with the CPU or the videocard, or not enough RAM?
Or the cheap DVDR card (which one is recommended?)
Or is this not possible with WebcamXP (4 camera's at once recording movements?)
Im planning to use an other PC for the camera setup, but I don't know if that PC is 'good' enough:
- Pentium4 1.8GHz
- 1 GB RAM
- NVida Geforce 2MX card (GPU: ASUS V7100pro, 32MB)
Should I buy a new/faster Pentium quad-core, 4GB ram PC, 3TB disc (RAID) ?
An othe question: when recording on all 4 camera's at once, how many data is collected in 24H/week/month/year?
Has anybody some experience with similar camera setup/problems? Feel free to give an answer!