Capture AHD or CVI cameras into a PC

[richms]

Have a strange use case where things need to be overlayed and then streamed out to other PCs to watch as well as recording the composited image with overlay, the current solution is to run OBS (Open Broadcaster Software | Download) on a PC with a few USB analog capture sticks and analog cameras, but the readability of the items details is now too low because its SD rubbish.

Was thinking of swapping the board cameras out to AHD ones since that has done wonders for security camera quality. But getting the video into the PC is a problem. Could possibly use a NVR and get the streams off that as sources but trying that with a analog DVR had all sorts of problems with them going out of sync with each other making the composited images pretty useless when things are leaving on one camera before arriving on another one.

So anyone know of a reasonable way to get capture of HD analog into a PC in a form that can be used by OBS?

 

[fenderman]

Have a strange use case where things need to be overlayed and then streamed out to other PCs to watch as well as recording the composited image with overlay, the current solution is to run OBS (Open Broadcaster Software | Download) on a PC with a few USB analog capture sticks and analog cameras, but the readability of the items details is now too low because its SD rubbish.

Was thinking of swapping the board cameras out to AHD ones since that has done wonders for security camera quality. But getting the video into the PC is a problem. Could possibly use a NVR and get the streams off that as sources but trying that with a analog DVR had all sorts of problems with them going out of sync with each other making the composited images pretty useless when things are leaving on one camera before arriving on another one.

So anyone know of a reasonable way to get capture of HD analog into a PC in a form that can be used by OBS?

what are you trying to overlay on the image?

 

[richms]

Am capturing the window of some accounting software, cropping out part of it and then tiling that with 3 analog cameras to show the picking and packing processes so that there is proof that products were put into a bag when it was sealed up and labeled. The recording is the main thing

The tracking numbers on the bags have got significantly smaller recently and are now hard to read so its either get a longer lens on the cameras or else get better quality ones. If I can feed better quality ones into OBS that would make the whole thing look a lot better.

 

[edzend]

Just go with ip cam.more simple setup.ini ahd you need dvr to capture the ahd signal