(lots of) digital video capture

[Edt]

Anyone got any thoughts or possible leads to follow..? A colleague here asked if its feasible to digitally archive the feeds from LOADS (and I mean loads) of video cameras (CCTV style), plus to store years worth of the media from ALL of the cameras.
I've only ever tinkered with MSEncoder with a single live camera which was fine - it can archive a live stream to a wmv; I've got no idea about taking it any further though to this sort of scale.

thanks all
Ed

[_dobbo_]

I suspect the cost of disk drives to archive all this data would be staggering!

However I'm sure it's possible - we have a 4 camera cctv system here that can archive live feeds, but they use so much disk space it's not worth it.

I can't remember where it came from but a quick search of google should get you some leads.

[Jnr]

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_dobbo_ said:

we have a 4 camera cctv system here that can archive live feeds, but they use so much disk space it's not worth it.

Hi Dobbo,

What system are you using ?? I'm currently looking at the x-vision software with a 4 input 15FPS card.....


J
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[agent006]

I believe we have a data camera cctv system at work. The videos are very low bandwidth due to the poor quality.
the recent videos are stored on a harddisk(s) then archived off to the main tape backup system after a week or so.

[julianhj]

My last workplace had an ADT system installed, 4 small B&W cameras (not brilliant quality, low frame rate), a VCR-sized box with IIRC 4 years worth of continuous streaming storage capacity.

Cost about £20k all-in I think.

>> Edited by julianhj on Wednesday 25th August 18:07