DIGITAL CAPTURE CARD RECOMMENDATIONS

[fcsurplus]

Hello Fellow Blue Iris Users,

We finally need to upgrade our old analog video card to digital. The analog card works fine but the analog cameras are dying.
Looking for recommendations on a reasonably priced 4 port capture card that works with Blue Iris, and digital cameras.

Some of the cards we have looked at are way overkill and cost more than the computer.

Thanks,
Bob

[TimG]

Hi, is there a reason you don't want to use IP cameras ?

[HeneryH]

I don't even know what a (non-ip-camera) digital camera is.

Perhaps the OP is coming to this question from the analog world and unfamiliar with digital IP architectures.

[fcsurplus]

They have some IP cameras but for the purpose of posting just 4 images on their website they use basic cameras.
I believe this may be one of the models they have https://www.fcsurplus.ca/shopping/produ ... ty-camera/

This camera does not work with the analog video capture card they have installed and that is the reason I asked for recommendations .

[PaulDaisy]

What you are showing is an IP power-over-ethernet (PoE) camera, and it should work with Blue Iris being a Dahua. You will need a PoE network switch (like this one) and the camera will stream data to the host computer using an ethernet connection.
So, you don't need a capture card anymore. You can connect up to 64 PoE cameras to BI using just one ethernet connection. Each camera connects to the PoE switch, and the switch connects to the network port of the PC. You can stream at about 2 Mbit/s from this 1.3 Mpix camera using H.264 at 15 fps, so a 1oo Mbit Fast Ethernet PoE switch will be able to support theoretically up to 45 cameras (obviously, you will need a switch with as many ports as you have cameras). Higher resolution cameras will use more bandwidth.