adamh

I'm using a Grantec PC to TV (http://www.grandtec.com/products/video/untimateEZ.html). Thanks for the tip about the AVerkey, it looks promising.

Hello all, I am currently in need of a way to capture video from a POS system (VGA) that is putting out 1280x800 into IP camera format (I'm using Milestone Xprotect). I have the following rig currently set up: VGA from POS --> VGA scaler to reduce resolution to 1024x768 --> VGA to composite converter --> Axis video server --> IP --> Milestone Xprotect server. This set up works for the most part but the end result is obviously not ideal since it ends with a low resolution and I am trying to capture text. I was wondering if anyone here had any ideas on a hardware device that was able to converter high resolution VGA into IP. Thanks, Adam

The project is taking video capture of employees working the register along with video output of the POS (which I have) and an additional display that shows statistics in real time (some text, some numbers and some graphs). The POS output is already at a low enough resolution that I'm able to feed it into an encoder without much quality loss. The problem I'm having is with converting the 1280x800 statistics display into something I can capture with Milestone. Scaling the image up wouldn't help because the VGA to composite converters only accept 800x600/1024x768 etc and then output a 480i signal.

It's mostly text with some simple graphics. Definitely not your typical console-style output from a POS. The problem I'm having is because of the scaling to lower resolutions I am unable to read some of the smaller text.

The POS is off limits I'm afraid. Sounds like I may already have the best solution in place.

No, not at all.

Unfortunately, this is not a typical POS system with serial output. It's a separate display tied into the POS system to display statistics to the employees. The only way I'll be able to capture it is through VGA, possibly DVI or by putting an IP camera in front of the screen (last resort).