CCTV Design (4 x D1 Streams) - 1 Screen

[Jack.Ruffles 0]

Dear All,

 

Please could I have some advice on the following, I'm new to CCTV and the below is a proposed setup by a crane supplier:

 

We have 4 x 700 TVL Cameras being fed into an Axis 4 Channel Encoder which supports max resolution of D1 at 15fps per stream.

 

I need to stream these in a quad view on a 27" Dell 1080p monitor.

 

My question is what is the best setup for these:

 

Do I adjust the monitor resolution and aspect ratio so that the streams are not stretched? As a 1920x1080 resolution monitor split into 4 would be approx. 960 x 540, whereas the D1 resolution is 720 x 480

 

I am a little lost as to how to set this out, I'm sure you experts will laugh and give me a simple answer to make this setup most effective with the best quality possible with what hardware I have to play with.

 

Good to make note that the 4 x 700 TVL analogue cameras are not changeable as per the agreed specification. Therefore what I have is what I have got to play with.

 

Any help would be extremely appreciated.

 

Thank you all in advance.

[Grigory 0]

If you have PC, you can install VLC, open the RTSP stream of Encoder, you didn't provide model, example:

https://www.axis.com/files/manuals/um_m7014_54168_en_1310.pdf

rtsp://<ip>/axis-media/media.amp

 

Change the Aspect Ratio in player.

 

You can make a shortcut for simple access

"C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" rtsp://<ip>/axis-media/media.amp --aspect-ratio 3:5

 

P.S.

Check that RTSP is enabled under System Options > Network > TCP/IP > Advanced

 

P.P.S.

If you won't find RTSP string, you can try this method:

github.com/grigory-lobkov/rtsp-camera-view/wiki/NVR-RTSP-stream-string