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I use gotcha for 2 years now and it locks
only
if you have a bad camera driver.
Now I have a Philips ToU Cam Pro connected to
Gotcha and it never locks. I think this is one of the best webcams
available on
the market (<1lux, CCD, full automatic or manual
adjustments).
Gotcha! works great on Windows 9x/2000/XP
(tested
by me). The main issue can be the camera driver.
Let's say, the Philips ToU Cam XS is one of
the
worst possible solution for Gotcha. It hangs a lot (especialy in XP) and it
is
allmost unusable at low light.
Dan
P.S. I'll check the supervision site. It is
the
first time I hear about this product.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 7:00
PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Maximum
USB
Dan, how is Gotcha performing? I tried it a while back
and
it locked the
PC (W2K) every few days.
Im now using
supervisioncam,
www.supervisioncam.de. I have
found
this
software to be far more reliable than Gotcha, and its cheaper
to.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan
[mailto:dtoma@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 10 September 2002 16:40
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject:
Re: [ukha_d] Maximum USB
I think that an analog B/W camera is
more
expensive than a color USB
one, with mic included.
More than that,
the
driver of the USB cam can do all the adjustments
automatically (like
sensibility, number of frames per second, contrast,
etc.). Especially
for
suveillance, where you don't need 25 frames/s,
decreasing the frame rate
to
5 or 3 frames/s can give you much better
quality al low light (s/n
ratio).
Other dissadvantages of analog cams in surveillance:
-
separate power supply (cheaper ones can get a lot of power)
- cheaper
capture cards need a lot o processing power to capture
the
video
A very good surveillance application, cheaper for
single cam but much
more expensive in multicam version is Gotcha!
(see
http://www.gotchanow.com/
).
Unfortunately, the multicam version doesn't work with standard USB
cams.
One of my webcams is connected to the Gotcha application and
accessible
on the Media Encoder too, as a Screen Capture (a small
trick..:)
).
Any other opinions?
Dan
http://www.automatedhome.co.uk
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