Alex,
thank you a lot.
I will study all that links tonight.
My provider has told me about Trendware IP cams. I'll search some camera
solutions there, also.
The main computer is a XP 2,6Ghz 1GBRAM with ADSL 1MB upstream. I think a
double boot machine could be installed... XP at day light, Linux at
night.... I=B4ll see.

Thanks again.
Dennis Crawley
Buenos Aires
Argentina.

Alex Harford <harford@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/19/06, Dennis Crawley <dennis.crawley@usa.net> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>  I'll appreciate some suggestions on this:
>>  How to connect video cams already installed
>>  by security via broadband Internet
>>  to a computer in another location...
>>
>>  The main video switch has a composite
>>  video out RCA plug
>
> My suggestion would be to combine the Linksys NSLU2 with the
> Hauppauge PVR-USB:
>
> http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/OpenSlug/InstallWinTVPVRUSB2
>
> You could then stream the MPEG2 data through an SSH tunnel to the
> viewing computer.
>
> Prices in CDN:
> ----------------------
>
> TV Capture: $160
> NSLU2: $100
>
>
>
> The downsides are that you probably need be quite familiar with Linux
> already, plus you will be depending on 'cheap' hardware so
> reliability
> may not be the greatest, especially if the hardware will be outside
> in
> the heat/cold.
>
> The upside is that you are converting it to MPEG so you will save a
> lot of bandwidth.  Whatever solution you choose to do, I highly
> recommend you use MPEG compression to save in bandwidth costs.
>
> Another solution is to use a more powerful computer on the video
> camera side that can detect motion and only send that data.
>
> For example ZoneMinder:
>
> http://www.zoneminder.com/home.html
>
> Alex


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