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iCam Support / Re: Working with analog cams?
« on: May 23, 2009, 05:45:12 PM »
I'm new to this group but my setup and experiences may apply here. I have 4 home security cameras with composite video outputs feeding a dedicated computer with a PCI card that multiplexes 4 inputs into one output for presentation on a monitor. These 4 cameras are from different manufacturers but they all present similar composite video output signals. The security computer is on a home network and connected to the internet.
What is happening regarding this setup and iCam is that I can run two instances of iCam on the security computer and two of the cameras will show video nicely to my iphone. When I try to run a third instance of iCam, I get the 'error 14 render stream failed' message. When I swap video inputs (ch. 1 and ch. 2 reversed, for example), only the same cameras that worked before continue to work, but on different channels. I think the setup should not care which camera is being used, but it seems to. I am at a loss to figure out how to get all 4 cameras to show up on iCam. Perhaps I should be happy that two of them work!
Any ideas? Thanks,
Geo
What is happening regarding this setup and iCam is that I can run two instances of iCam on the security computer and two of the cameras will show video nicely to my iphone. When I try to run a third instance of iCam, I get the 'error 14 render stream failed' message. When I swap video inputs (ch. 1 and ch. 2 reversed, for example), only the same cameras that worked before continue to work, but on different channels. I think the setup should not care which camera is being used, but it seems to. I am at a loss to figure out how to get all 4 cameras to show up on iCam. Perhaps I should be happy that two of them work!
Any ideas? Thanks,
Geo