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You could also consider something like this.

So???

I'm in your boat, dunno why I hadn't see this post before. I do residential systems but out troubles are the same. I do not know of any IP cameras that put out an MPEG2 transport stream. Generally they all use some strange undesirable codec. Your best bet is probably to find a multi channel DVR capture card based on conexant 878 enoders, you can then use VLC to stream the individual inputs to specific TCP ports without transcoding (I assume that what you were doing before. h.264>MPEG2 TS). What does your current video on demand system want coming in? EDIT: Why wireless? How big is the nursary?

Check your other thread.

It will work. VGA, DVI, Composite and S Video connections are there. Which DVR do you have?

Yes it will display them regaurdless but you didn't say which DVR you have and this is in the general area. For the other techies it has all the inputs VGA, DVI, composite, component and S Video.

Swan is junk, IIRC even Target quit carring them. I think you should at least look at a PC solution. Literally half or more of the "embedded" systems you will look at are just simply single use PCs in a set top box. Custom cooling possiblities, you probably don't care how load the thing is. Why no networking? I would use that to monitor the system's status either way so I wouldn't need to go down there and I would know right when the vandals started their stuff.

They are screwed. As a dealer you can offer to trade their functional cameras for suitable analogs and baluns but there would be a cost in it.

As mentioned, get the pool. Mount the front door camera low, like should hieght and NO IR. Otherwise you will get the tops of ballcaps and whiteout from IR. Not a clarity thing but I don't think you are a nutjob anymore.

Couple of options, do you know the model number on the cameras? Do you know if they have and analog out (maybe for a text monitor) on the camera itself?

You can but not with just any "punchdown". Going across a classic POTS 66 punchdown, no way. Using a punchdown on a RJ45 jack on a patch panel yes but with some degredation. Anytime you add connections to basically and kind of transmission you degrade the signal.

You should try playing with the compression settings for the camera, those pics could be alot better without all the artifacts from over compression.

Never thought about that but it makes sence, learned something new. I can totally see a strobe causing MPEG to create excessive keyframes, I just never thought about them adding up to surpass MJPEG file sizes.

Many PC DVRs have a CS style app that will allow you to watch multiple DVRs from one terminal if you like.

I figured the $20 TV vs. $22 SVHS adapter would be pretty dang annoying.

What video card? CAn you get a screen capture of the geo config screens?

I would try swapping baluns unless these were $. I'm not going to stop your current track though, you should use siamese and not cat 5 on 50' runs.

What DVR? Some are picky about input strength.

All of the cameras we normally deal with at SD and interlaced, all flat panals are digital and most are HD or better. Anytime you watch SD on an HD monitor it will look like crap, if you put the SD image in perspective (a 640x480 box) it will look as good as a CRT just small. I use a 50" plasma in my living room to watch SD TV (640x480), SD CCTV (320x240) and surf the web (~696x768). Yes the ads on the left side of this site piss me off. Other then that no complaints... Now putting a 330 line camera up at 4:3 1024x768 looks bad as does the SD cable TV because half of whats on the screen is BS made up in scaling it up that far. I wouldn't have any problems with 6 or so 50" plasmas using a PC to control whats where but my method would only work for live viewing.

Lots of ISPs block port 80 for basic accounts don't use it if you can avoid it. Just because they allow it today doesn't mean they will tomorrow. You can use port forwarding to bring whatever you like back to port 80 internally so you don't need to reconfigure the DVR itself at all. (I have no clue which ports you need for that DVR.)

Probably just coincendence. Are you in the US? How much value is in the jewelry? Got outside cameras?

Get a BNC to RCA adapter at radioshack. http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2104079&cp=2032058.2032231.2032281&pg=2&cp=2032058.2032231&f=Taxonomy%2FRSK%2F2032281&categoryId=2032281&kw=bnc&kwCatId=2032058&parentPage=search That one lets you use the coax up to the TV, you can also put it at the DVR and run regular AV composite cable.

jisaacmagee, how many Kbps on that? It might be nice to see what a modern camcorder does via firewire if you happen to have one.

I have never done it but in this small town where I live I can tell you it works fine for the cable TV (coax) and telephone (Cat5) companies. They use wire rope and spin their cable around it. It's just one of those cheesy install things, it'll probably work okay but you won't gain any respect for doing it that way.

I know I have gone over 700', past 2 hugh roof AC units and countless lighting ballists with decent picture quality. I can't really confirm much though as the client wanted 380 line cameras. So I mean whats decent picture quality from a 380l chinese cam anyway. It basically looked as it did local to the cam with my monitor. These were cheap (~$15-20 retail) yoko tech passive baluns too.