CCTV Design and Input for Single Intel Workstation

[warpservermelon 0]

Greeting's I'm new to the CCTV world and am quite happy that I've found this forum. Here is my problem....

I purchased an RF camera and base station. I have no reason to suspect the quality (yet) but I thought I could get it going by plugging the base station into my ATI video card that has a TV port.

I don't belive this can be done so I need two thing's..

A recommendation for a DVR card ( 2 camera minimun) average quality

A software package that will let me capture, record etc...

Some feedback on how I should have done it in the first place and some vendor input. What about Linux vs windows ? Should I go towards one platform or another ?

 

 

Cheers !

[Thomas 0]

Is the TV port expecting a modulated signal? (i.e. Cable channels) or unmodulated (i.e. video out on a camcorder/vcr)?

[warpservermelon 0]

Well , my best guess would be a modulated signal since the image would travel to the base station from the camera by RF.

[Airick 0]

If you have an ATI All-in-Wonder then it is expecting a modulated signal. You should also have an RCA video input on that card if it is what I am thinking of, in that case find a BNC to RCA adapter.

 

Of course this doesn't work if you have a two camera minimum. You could also have issues tying this video input into your DVR software. Never tried it before.

[warpservermelon 0]

I believe the application Luxriot has All in Wonder support. The base station has an RCA output. I'll plug it into the Wonder ,give it a try and post.

 

Thanks !