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Questions tagged [cctv]

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How can I view the video camera stream from my DVR?

I have a HANBANG HB7008KC DVR. It comes with a Windows IE ActiveX software to view the cameras. They don't support Linux. I have a Linux machine and i want to connect to the DVR. I use DvrSeeSee App for Android to view the DVR from my mobile. So i…
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Opening a H264 stream from DVR using VLC/FFmpeg

I've been tinkering with ITX's DVR for the past few days, trying to connect to its RTSP stream using the SDK that manufacturer provides. The official syntax goes like this: PLAY…
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Bridge cameras and connect to LAN

I'm hoping to connect two H.264 cameras (with ethernet ports) to the main LAN wirelessly. Can a cheap switch be used and somehow have it connected to the LAN via WiFi? Perhaps a wireless bridge? But I read that WiFi isn't designed for bridging. Does…
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How to convert .raw video file to .avi using ffmpeg?

mediainfo on the file gives the following output - General Complete name : 0x5C3C6393.raw Format : AVC Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec File size …
Utkarsh Mittal
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Turn webcam into a CCTV?

Possible Duplicate: WebCam as a security camera. is that possible? Is there a software that can do that?
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how to watch / convert cctv footage with apparently no extension on it?

someone brought me a footage from a cctv (regarding some minor robbery) and is asking me to show him the thief, all I have is a ~1 GB file with no extension, and a windows software (apparently came from cctv) for watching the videos from pc named "…
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Free CCTV software using webcam running on Windows

My wife asked me to film our hamster when he's active at night. I've got a webcam and a pretty bright infrared LED already, the only thing missing is some software. There are plrenty of programs out there, but I am yet to find something that's free…
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CCTV BNC to usb for mac

I was wondering what is the best way to connect a CCTV camera with BNC cables to a Mac computer. I tried to go BNC TO VGA but the VGA port on my computer seems only to be an output and not an input.
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Connect CCTV Camera With BNC Cable To Computer and Make Appear As Webcam

Does anyone know the best way to connect a bnc cable(I think it's called bnc), this, to a computer (windows 7) and make it appear as a webcam so that the Vitamin D CCTV Software will see it and work with it. Thanks.
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Can I use Cat 6 cable with CCTV camera for video output

Can I use the 8 cables inside the Cat 6 cable to get the video from 4 CCTV cameras. I find it very bulky to have one big wire for every camera. I thought if its possible to use 4 pairs to tranfer video via Cat 6 cable.
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How to record PC screen activity with a DVR?

I was asked how would one be able to record PC screen activity to a standalone DVR (to sync it with CCTV cameras). 2 different solutions came to my mind: A software installed on the PC makes the PC to pretend to be an IP camera, streaming desktop…
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How to get ivms-4200 soft to reconnect to remote DVRs after Internet connection is reestablished?

I've set up a computer to receive the video flows from several remote Hikvision DVRs. To do that I installed the IVMS-4200 software and I configured it to connect to the remote DVRs through the Hikconnect platform. It works really well, except when…
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Convert power + BNC CCTV camera to use PoE (power over ethernet) and have it able to obtain IP addresses

I have an old power + BNC(video) style CCTV camera that I would like to convert to a camera that uses Power over Ethernet (PoE) as well as being able to be assigned an IP address. I've seen some cheap passive power + BNC to PoE adapters on Amazon…
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7z.exe in CCTV Surveillance Progam Files Folder

The CEO of my company installed 7zip to his system. Kaspersky Endpoint Security 10 notified him of vulnerabilities report. He then updated the program to the latest version but it didn't help so he decided to uninstall 7zip from his system. However,…
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How to check fps consistency for an ip camera

Blockquote How can i check the number of frames captured by an ip camera? Background: I'm not much experienced in IP cameras, but my work right now is to fix an fps inconsistency of a grabber module (C++ module that reads stream from ip camera).…
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