Connecting a CCTV with MediaPortal (1 Viewer)

[moryoav]

There are a few old and unhelpful posts about this issue in the forum from the distant past, I thought I would revisit this idea: I'm thinking of connecting a CCTV camera (with Component video connectors) to my Video-In socket of my Hauppauge PVR-150 MCE. Would I be able to have two input sources? One through the coaxial input for analog TV and then one Component for the CCTV? I don't want to be able to watch the two at the same time, I would ideally only want one of the TV channels to be that of the CCTV input.

Would that be somehow possible?

 

[kiwijunglist]

yea its the same setup as a set top box. you just add tv channel in tvserver config and choose the video input as the source rather than a tuner.

 

[moryoav]

yea its the same setup as a set top box. you just add tv channel in tvserver config and choose the video input as the source rather than a tuner.

 

[Spragleknas]

I think you mean composite - not component, as the PVr-150 does not have component in (very, very few cards do)

 

[moryoav]

I think you mean composite - not component, as the PVr-150 does not have component in (very, very few cards do)

Yes, of course, my mistake...

 

[robbo100]

It is worthy of note that if your input card does not have hardware encoding then you will need to install a software encoder. I personally have found that this can be a little unreliable and can cause the odd crash.

I generally find (on an E7400 system) that there is a delay of about 7 seconds from the video being inputted, to the image being output on via the HTPC.

Rob