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You will need to know the pin out of the pole display, the reason is that the pole display if it has no power to it, will be drawing power through the pin out, putting capture box on it could actually wreck the device becaseu power is going through it....I have heard of this numerous times...the other thing is that pole displays rarely have standard pin outs....IE 1 might go to 1 on standard 232 but 1 might be power for the pole display...find out which pin outs are being used for data transfer or return data and match them to the Geo capture device and cut the cables that have power in them.

I just got a powerpoint preentation with your images in it too...kinda famous now dude!

Poor kid, fancy having a lst name like that!

Is your cameras lense butted up against the glass, IE could it be reflection, move the camera in the housing towards the glass as close as possible, if it is flexing it could be going out of focus, have you checked at the source that the camera is still in focus. Is it possible the glass is dirty, try removing the glass front?

No idea but it looks something like .. Hold Docket Until Picture Registration Video Number, or something like that.

VCS or Divitel?

The other issue could be the pin out of the display, some pole displays have voltage in them to power them so the pin out may be different!

Hay Rory, All those images you keep showing of that pool and stuff with IR lighting..did you actually do that job...I saw a demo recently from extreme and they used those images?

IMHO, I would not bother, it would be just as cheap to increase your UP speed or to use a better encoder, something that does either MPEG4 or H264.

I can tell you this, however I am no expert in Infared technology, especially with leds as I have only used Halogen lamps but you may want to know that the human eye can see up to 780nm but in all honesty the sensitivity above 700nm is very weak indeed, so in reality we as humans can see up to 700-715nm. The wavelengths for Infrared are usually above 700nm It is correct that the human iris will stay open in some people (depends on their own sensitivity) because it can not see any light in the dark the iris opens to allow light in, and allowing infrared light in can cause blindness (I am still refering to halogen lamps here), this is only likely to occur when you are very close to the illuminator at night and there is no lighting causing the iris to open. You could hold your hand near the device and feel for heat, because heat is Infrared Radiation. The other thing to consider is the dispersion of the Infrared light..for example a bullet camera may have a narrow dispersion, this allows the light to travel further, but keep in mind a childs room is small and the camera is not as highly mounted as it would be for outside, so is it dangerous to concentrate the light on the baby's face...I would guess so. (Once again still talking about lamps) The 7W, 15W and 50W LED's are not as powerfull as the lamps so I have no idea if they could be damaging but there is another type of infrared used and that is the Infrared Laser Diode and this radiates light into one coherant beam concentrating the light in a small area I would avoid this type of device. Longer Wavelength photons penetrate the CCD more easily and cameras without a cut filter are even more sensitive to it. There are two wavelengths most typically used with Haogen style lamps one starting at 715 nm and one at around 830nm, but visable IR lights are around 830nm. The infrared radiation is not one single frequency, it is a continuous spectrum starting from whichever wavelength you choose. Halogen lamps radiate a lot of heat, but for a kids room it is unlikely that you would ever use one, this is why halogen lamps do not last long because even with heat sinks they still run very hot. I am sorry about not knowing about LED's and I assume they are fairly harmless, but I would not consider any that concentrate the beam on the childs face, if you could find one with a wide spread and make it as far away as possible that would be the safest. LED's are completely different to lamps so I can not answer your question on that. ~ I hope this helps

A transcoder is a device used to convert one form of encoded video to another, for example PAL to NTSC etc. ~ I hope this Helps

The one on the left looks Russian LOL

1/ Yes that picture was the Bosch LTC0495/11 2/ I am not sure, when they brought out new stuff for the XF it went from LTC0485/10 to LTC0485/11 and I think it was a slight change in the DSP, but not sure, the big difference in number looks like PAL version VS NTSC 3/ The Bilinx is a combination of Hardware and Software, you simply add a BNC T Piece anywhere in the cable, IE if a camera is cabled to the DVR then remove it from the DVR end add a T Piece and a small lead to continue it to the DVR, then connect the Bilinx hardware that goes to USB on your laptop and works with the software, this means the data signal travels on the coax and is grabbed by the USB device and interfaces with the software, unless of course you are using some of the Bosch DVR's which have Bilinx built into it.

I heard that GE and many other companies got together to release the Pixim Cmos chip, I wonder if this is why they now think they are a pretty neat idea?

Can anyonel list the known manufactorers that offer hardware compression boards and what compression they use?

I have heard very good things about the JVC range of cameras, has anyone tested these?

Arent there more hardware compression boards than these?

I am a member of several forums and one of them seems to use this engine, but one thing they do that I like is that they email you if you are linked to the thread but include the latest message in the email so you know what was last said, I find this very handy and better than having to log in to look.

Good point, but I would still go there to post my reply

That is not what I meant....and yes I do..here is an example of what the this site does and what the other site does... This site: Hello, Other Site: It is easier to know what has been posted and by whom

Anyone used their gear and do they make their own stuff? http://www.tevicom.co.kr

why did you set the router to forward to the :port#, you only need to set the port to forward to the actual IP, once you are through that port you no longer need to direct it to the port IE: Port forwarding port 81 would require you to forward port :81 to your static ip for example 192.168.10.2 not 192.168.10.2:81, once pert forwrding is set up, you do not need to use the port number unless connecting from outside and the forwarding only requires the number without the port info. Your net might be going down becasue they may be already using that port for internet, try a higher number.

Magic Radar are reasonable but lack features

They will probably send you to a company called ASD in NZ, you can not buy direct without being a CSP, Crime Watch in NSW also sells them.

The biggest problem with standard cameras and reg capture is being able to adjust the settigs properly, I am no expert on this but the things I have had to adjust for plate capture are the following. 1/ You need a camera that does have problems with vertical smearing, IE those two long thin lines that go top to bottom when headlights are directly looking at the camera. 2/ You need a camera that has a fast shutter speed or better still a dynamic shutter speed that adjusts itself to avoid motion blur, keep in mind though that shutter speeds effect the brightness of the image. 3/ You need to trun down the gain because the gain when looking at hot white light with distort the image, therefore you need to be able to adjust the gain setting for day and for night, the best way I have found this is to use the IO input/output on a DVR and run a schedule to the camera I use that allows you to switch modes and profiles IE 1 for day and one for night. 4/ If using IR lighting then you need an IR correct lense or you may go out of focus at dusk and dawn and IR correct lenses also help with the blooming effect you get with headlights when using IR lighting. 5/ There is an alternative option of using cameras that support inversion, this measn the headlights are black instead of white and therefore do not effect the image so much, if the plate has a white or reflective background then the numbers and letters can be made out quite easily in ineversion mode. 6/ Lastly if you have a camera that can set a maximum bright level...no not a DC level but a maximum light threshold you can eliminate some of the effects of the headlights in this mannor. I hope this helps