Thomas

What are the limitations of using it?

The problem with Soild state is cost and reliability. Decent storage for 14 days in CF or SD is just a massive amount of flash cards. Second is that soild state has much few read/writes in it's life span. IBM's NRAM should help but we'll be waiting a few more years for that.

It sounds like you are looking for broadcast gear?

Um, frankly if he just wanted to run up his count I think you could safely say he has done it. So I would go with the expert rather then what could be taken as a snotty comment.

Let me try to clarify what you are trying to do. Are you trying to do real CCTV applications like monitoring, or recording? Are you trying to do web casting of the sermon?

Why real time?

I would because it would be easier. But something to keep in mind. If you go cheap, the cable is the last place to go cheap. You can upgrade cameras later. You can upgrade DVR later. But replacing the cable...have fun.

I belive he means some parking lots in Pakastan or Syria. But we shouldn't jump to who did it quite yet. Keep in mind that the G-8 Summit is in Scotland, and some of the anti-globalization types are getting quite violent. I haven't heard of anything so organized out of them, but it's possible.

I wouldn't look on EBay unless you're looking at used. The question becomes, which is more important, money or quality?

You don't need a licence for 1.2 Ghz as long as your under a certain Wattage. A number of portable phones use that space. And keep in mind, a wireless network can never be considered secure. No matter how much you lock it down, you should always treat it as an inscure space. Generally that means if it's wireless analogue, assume someone is watching. For Wi-fi, assume the network is comprised and build it within it's own area.

Only if you did LOS or PTP transmission. Even then you're going to get spread from the signal. So the answer is no.

You don't see it because it's pretty new and the industry is looking toward MPEG for better compression.

Um, I don't keep the fileserver machine (running Linux) open, but the case is a nice HP Vectra case and if I meet the engineer who designed it I'm going to buy him a beer. Easy to get the panel off, all of the drive bays are designed to face toward me to make it easy switch the jumpers. PCI cards held in place with a latch system and no freaking sharp edges. Other machines either aren't tinkered with or have clamshell cases.

Great. Just make sure you put in a second network backbone. I.P. Cameras are network traffic intensive and only going to get worse.

Here is where I admit that the wiring for my home network is a fire trap. Now the inside of my PC's....those are my works of wiring art.

I also ment to say that any video signal can be compressed into any format. NTSC->MJPEG or MJPEG->JPEG2000. I can feed NTSC and get JPEG2000 out. Nothing prevents it from being used now.

Apples and oranges. NTSC, PAL and SEACAM (did I get that right?) are analogue signals. So if I hook them up to a osillascope, I see a waveform. I see uncompressed signal. MPEG, MJPEG, JPEG2000 are compressed (cut out chunks of signal I think you won't notice in an effort to save space) signals in digital formating. I put them up to an osillascope and I would get bursts (packets) of random noise. You compress video in order to save space. You can record raw video as YUV or RGB values per pixel. One hour video that way is over a terabyte of storage. You can feed a compressed signal into any kind of TCP/IP carrier, including co-ax.

See CCTV's answer for why you didn't find pricing. As far as all in software it's not something we're working on at this time. We design our software to be very modular. The only two bits of it that have to be on the same machine are the analogue capture software and board. The database can be on a seperate machine, the webclient can be on a seperate machine, four differant servers can share them as a resource. The IP camera software is added to that as just another server. Second is pricing. There is nothing physical we need to sell for IP cameras. There isn't a capture card, dongle, or doodad needed to make it work. It's all software. So we don't have to obey limitations set in hardware like FPS. So why sell you 16 cameras worth of licences when you only need 14? Or why set the limit at an arbitray 8 cameras when you need 9? KISS is a wonderful thing, but there are differant ways of approching it. I can build an engine that's all one part, something goes bad, the mechcanic swaps out the engine and you are on your way. But that's expensive. Or I can build it out of smaller parts which are much cheaper to replace. Your call.

99% of what they sell is crap. That camera is simple medicore.

Nope, it just means you get to cut through the crap.

It's not going to stack up to a Pelco, Bosch or Panasonic. It's not horrible, and is probley the best camera they sell, but that's not saying much. The specs say 520 lines, I'd say 480 is probley closer. Good camera for a low budget.

There is a simple solution to dealing with Dell. Have two tech support staff. Get one Dell Certified. Then he can just order parts for them.

The orignal VNC was for Bell Labs Unix. (System V). Embeding Tight/Real/Ultra VNC into a product will GPL the rest of the code Rory.

Incoming or outgoing?

It's going to be better then normal MJPEG, and may be as good as MPEG-2 as far as quaility goes but some of it is going to be a matter how the encoder is set.