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Problems with a Surveillance System
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| Deja-vue 2003-08-29, 3:36 pm |
| I installed this complete System at a Customer’s House the other Day, he wanted to be able to dial into his System with PC-Anywhere 10.5, then watch, what is going on in his House.
Now there is a Surveillance system installed, 4 Cams, going into a VCR, time lapsed recordings, etc.
Video coming out of the VCR generated is one Screen, divided into 4 fields, for each Camera one Field.
I installed a ATI-all-in-wonder 7500 in that Computer, an extra 160 gig Hard drive for about 12-14 Days of recordings at minimum settings.
Ran the Cable from the VCR out to the Video card Capture-in.
The Customer scheduled recordings between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM, when he’s not around. The Computer records like a charm. Later he can go in and browse his Video-files, and delete them after the Hard drive fills up or burn them to DVD, if he wants to
Keep them. He’s also has the Video on Tape, if needed.
The Computer is on DSL behind a Router, I opened the necessary Ports.
Here comes the Kicker:
When he dials in via PC-Anywhere and fires up the TV on the Host or wants to view previous recordings, he gets just a black picture. Nor the entire Screen goes black, just the TV-Player or File-player.
Screen-resolution on both Monitors is 1280X1024. Everything else is working like a charm. Just can’t see a picture, when on a remote workstation.
Please don’t tell me that the TV-picture is an “overlay” that is not detected by PC-Anywhere….or that it is beyond the capabilities of PC-Anywhere.
Any Ideas, anyone?
BTW:
there is a little USB-Camera connected to the Computer, and that video feed is transmitted just fine
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| azimuth40 2003-08-29, 4:28 pm |
| My guess is the problem is with some funky combination of direct-x commands. What is the file format. Blank screen is scary I hope they did not do something funny like a derivative of Flash to save disk space. If the files can be played with anything else try changing the default player to a third party something and see what happens, quicktime, real player, nero player etc. | |
| Delphis 2003-08-30, 1:46 am |
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Please don’t tell me that the TV-picture is an “overlay” that is not detected by PC-Anywhere
Ok I won't tell you.  | |
| Deja-vue 2003-08-30, 11:41 am |
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Originally posted by Delphis
Ok I won't tell you.
Delphis, so it is beyond PC-Anywhere's capabilities?
What else can i use? | |
| Delphis 2003-08-30, 1:20 pm |
| Have you tried XP Pro's remote desktop? I'm not sure if it supports overlays either, but it would be the next thing I'd check. | |
| enforcer 2003-08-31, 12:07 pm |
| Try NetMeeting
or VNC
is the picture full screen or in a window.
Bear in mind when doing remote control, heavy moving pictures put a lot of strain on the link and the main controlled PC has to wait for the controlling PC to 'catch up'
I've had problems remote controlling a PC which has presentation software on it, and when presentations are running the screen goes blank. |
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