Hey, my personal solution is this:
I have a cheap wireless videotransmitter from the ALDI markt ( famous in germany and holland I don't know where else ) for E29. the transmitter can be modded, the internal electronics fit into a cigarette package, and it will run on 9V battery provided with enough power ( 200 mA ) wich I make by putting 2 big duracell batteries of 4.5 v in series. It gives me even greater feedom then the 2x2 cm 'spy cams', since I can hook up any camera that has an analogue output.
On linux I use a bttv video grabber, pcwintv or something else, based on bttv chipsets, I got some from second hand markets for less then 10 eur. A firewire camera with analogue inputs, or a dazzle dv bridge will work too, but better on win/macos since the opensource dv codecs are eating away your cpu ( the video has to be decompressed before you can process it, takes about 20~30% of my cpu on a fast pc, but the commercial codecs are *much* faster unfortunately ). I have a external usb chinch video input lying around somewhere here, but this is not a real option. I have been looking for a video > usb2 solution that can do decent quality on linux, but I don't know any. ( anyone seen pcmcia bttv boards? ).
my solution works great, and the batteries go for over 9 hours, and depending on the building you have a 10 to 50 meter radius. the higher you put your receiver, the more you get.
wendling wrote:
Hello,
I used video camera in GEM and the firewire and USB solution work fine.
But i often have lenght's cable problem. So i would like to used an wireless video connection. I have the wireless system and a pinnacle pctv de luxe but it's seems only work with pinnacle software !!!
I would like to know if someone have a solution for an acquisition extern card or an other proposition ?
Thank's again this great soft.
Wilfried Wendling
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