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I'm going round in circles. We have a nest box in the garden with a small CMOS spy cam so we can see what the birds are up to. It sends out analogue signals in either Composite Video (RCA plug) or S Video (DIN plug) format together with an audio signal (RCA). A while back, I bought a VideoMate C100 card that fitted into a full size PCI slot on an ancient PC. It worked well. The picture and sound quality wasn't great but perfectly adequate for our needs. I could store away stills and clips on a hard drive. Unfortunately, the ancient PC died, and now I have two machines that I could use to try and capture the blue tits, but neither has a PCI slot for that card, and I need another bit of hardware to replace it. The computers I could use are....
1) a 1.6GHz, 2GB RAM mini desktop with a PCI-e slot and some USB 2.0 ports running on either XP or Windows 7.
2) a 3GHz, 8GB RAM laptop with no slots but HDMI, USB 2.0 and USB 3.1 running on Windows 10
I have about 4TB of storage available in external hard drives, so that isn't a limitation for either PC.
Could any parishioners make suggestions of how to patch the cameras AV outputs into either of these computers? All I want to do is start directing my worldwide award-winning documentary, The Blue Tit Planet, with a total budget of a whopping £35 tops.
Thanks.
1) a 1.6GHz, 2GB RAM mini desktop with a PCI-e slot and some USB 2.0 ports running on either XP or Windows 7.
2) a 3GHz, 8GB RAM laptop with no slots but HDMI, USB 2.0 and USB 3.1 running on Windows 10
I have about 4TB of storage available in external hard drives, so that isn't a limitation for either PC.
Could any parishioners make suggestions of how to patch the cameras AV outputs into either of these computers? All I want to do is start directing my worldwide award-winning documentary, The Blue Tit Planet, with a total budget of a whopping £35 tops.
Thanks.
