RE: Bird box recording?

["Steve Morgan" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I equipped my birdbox with a small camera
(http://www.henrys.co.uk/cctv/pro240.htm)
from Henry's CCTV.

For capture, I use a Hauppauge WinTV USB device.

The first year I ran it, I used a motion-detection app to capture still
images, then used another application to combine the many JPEGs into an AVI
file. I can't remember exactly which apps, but I could find out if you
wanted.

However, I found that using motion detection was somewhat unsatisfying as
it
missed the briefest moments and you couldn't really get a feel for the
timespan over which things were happening.

Subsequently, I attached the WinTV to a server and ran Windows Media
Encoder
24 hours a day for about 6 weeks. A Kix script cycled the video files every
hour. Total video captured ran to 400GB! The fun, of course, came in
filtering out the boring bits.

It's an interesting exercise.

Steve


-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Paul Gale
Sent: 01 April 2009 09:29
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: [ukha_d] Bird box recording?

Does anyone have a CCTV bird box recording solution? A friend wants to set
something up in a bird box - possibly motion controlled.

Any recommendations as to camera types/software and other kit?

Cheers,

Paul.




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