Hi,

I have a neighbour who is no longer physically able to get to a window
or to her garden and is much missing being able to do so.

I have in mind a project which involves two video cameras looking at her
bird bath..(feathered kind, before you get too excited). The composite
video signals from those end up in the adjacent house, where she can see
them on her TV/computer screen.

I want to input those two signals into a computer, display them in
individual windows (ideally both on her TV - or at least easily choose
between sources to display on the TV), giving her a remote control(s) so
that either/both sources can be recorded with reasonable quality but
lots of compression, with live pause, rewind and fast forward..

So, I think what I need is two dissimilar (so that the two remotes will
work independently) TV cards with video input, that will co-exist in a
Windows XP machine. With hardware compression on the cards.

Any thoughts on the best way to achieve this? The cameras are wireless -
USB web cams wouldn't be an option (too far) but a unit, if they exist,
that has two or more video inputs and sits on a LAN may be..

Sorry if this is the wrong group, if it is, please point me in the
direction of a more appropriate one.

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SUe

You could lash something up cheaply with two cameras, each directly
feeding its own screen. If you really want all the clever
recording/pausing options, you can buy it packaged as a security
surveillance system. There are both hardware and software solutions.