We have a test requirement that says we must have a surveillance camera
and store the video for 60 days.
Any thing that will do just that is fine. I'm trying to find the absolute
cheapest thing out there. quality is not a concern, but disk space is.
Even a solution with a $30 webcam would be fine, as long as it works.
CamPanel can do it on an 80 GB hard drive.
This will be images size 320x240, one frame per second, about 1.2 G per
day.
http://www.trackercam.com/campanel
CamPanel is $49.99 and you can use any webcam or analog camera you
want with it - even a $20 webcam.
Hope this helps!
Arty
>We have a test requirement that says we must have a surveillance camera
>and store the video for 60 days.
What datarate? Once a second? Just get a $30 webcam and click once a second
and store the pictures on a harddrive. Since the jpeg compressed images are
liable to be only a few KB (let us say 10) 60 days= 5 10^6 sec = 50GB of
data. Just get a 100GB hard drive and store the pictures in a round robin
on the hard drive.
>Any thing that will do just that is fine. I'm trying to find the absolute
>cheapest thing out there. quality is not a concern, but disk space is.
>Even a solution with a $30 webcam would be fine, as long as it works.
Check out the following, they're both highly rated, and I've monkeyed
with both. Also, consider that you'd probably save a lot of disk space
by using a motion activated solution that's not constantly 'filming'.
http://www.pc-alarm.com/downloads.htm
And this one (Jaxcam) is my favorite, it can support quite a few
cameras, which is nice, and it's more designed around the 'monitoring'
mentality than pc-alarm (which is more into 'alerting' or reacting):
http://www.jaxstream.com/products/jaxcam/main.htm
Enjoy...