advice on video capture solution

    _ben
    Feb 20 2006 | 4:53 pm
    I need to get 3 video streams into jitter, simultaneously. I'm on a Mac G5, PCI. Firewire webcams won't work due to long cable runs, so I'm looking for a firewire or PCI solution. The solution does not need to offer great resolution or quality.
    Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated.
    This topic has been addressed on the forum before, but not recently (the technology, of course, changes rapidly).
    Thank you, B. Dean
    • Johnny deKam
      Feb 20 2006 | 4:58 pm
      Two Miglia Alchemy cards + one Firewire DV interface
      -deKam
    • _ben
      Feb 20 2006 | 7:50 pm
      Johnny, Have you actually used 2 of these cards in one G5? Thanks, bd
    • Emmanuel Jourdan
      Feb 20 2006 | 8:10 pm
    • Marco Lorenzin
      Feb 21 2006 | 7:44 am
      If you don't need great resolution or quality, i would strongly suggest you a quad processor (4 video input, 1 video output). Then you can digitize and cut the incoming video stream into 4 uniform rectangular regions (for example using jit.scissors)
      Marco