Question: I am looking at getting a four or eight channel digital video recorder (DVR)
CCTVfor home security, and am looking at what is around. I would like an
ethernet interface, to enable web viewing. Has anyone used one of these
Digital Video Recorders CCTV recorder from Jaycar / Electus? If so what do
you think of them? I have also seen some from WES. Any comments from someone
who has one would be very welcome.
Answer:Maybe I'm a bit behind in market values, but would a PC of that price
have sufficient power to be able to capture and dump 4 channels? My
Duron 1.2GHz used to have problems keeping up with 640x480 capture at
25fps. At one end of the scale the HD couldn't write the raw data fast
enough, at the other end compression reduced the amount written to the
HD but it was too CPU hungry. Too close to either extreme resulted in
dropped frames, so it took a fair bit of experimenting to find a
reliable balance.
