System provides budget digital video recording

GrabPeg is a real-time PC-based image recording system based on MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 video compression standards.

GrabPeg is a real-time PC-based image recording system based on MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 video compression standards.

The GrabPeg recorder captures the video using a framegrabber, compresses it, in real time, using MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 compression standards and stores it on to hard disk.

The GrabPeg MPEG encoder uses sophisticated algorithms and techniques that make it run at unprecedented speeds on systems using Intel Pentium processors or equivalent.

The GrabPeg software can support multiple camera systems with a separate recording channel being created for each camera.

The relevant parameter (eg output file name, file accumulation rate, frame size, frame rate etc) of each channel can be individually configured.

The GrabPeg Player enables a frame by frame review of the MPEG video and single frames can be saved as bitmap images.

"This is a package that the security industry has been waiting for", said Richard White, Managing Director of Kane Computing, "a low cost subsystem for integration into digital video recorder and security systems/products".

Versions are available for single camera applications (GrabPeg) and multiple camera applications (Multi GrabPeg).

Standard Pal/NTSC/CCIR/RS-170/Secam cameras are supported using one or more high quality PCI framegrabbers, which are available as part of the package.

GrabPeg and Multi GrabPeg are available for immediate delivery and prices start at around GBP 300 for software and one framegrabber.

Kane Computing has been supplying video products for industrial inspection and security applications for many years and is a member of the UKIVA (UK Industrial Vision Association).

(This was Electronicstalk's Top Story on 23 April 2002).

(This was Electronicstalk's Top Story on 23 April 2002).

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