rjk
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I have a bee in my bonnet about getting a really good system in my vehicle. My idea is to be able to get 360 degree coverage, in Full HD. I'm considering a custom built car PC to do the recording and also to transcode for archival purposes, but I need recommendations for the best cameras to use.
The cameras I want just need to be able to connect to my car PC somehow - they don't need GPS, they don't need their own SD card storage, they don't need any kind of screen at all. However, I want them to be able to capture at 1080p full HD, 30-60 FPS. I might want to mount the front one in the grille to prevent things hanging from my windshield, however this may not be optimal. If I did that, it would have to be waterproof.
I'm not sure of the best options for side viewing - perhaps some cameras mounted to the side-view mirrors. I found a few interesting systems targeted at law enforcement organizations, but they are very expensive!
For recording, I plan to have a large SSD in my car PC. While driving, it would record at full resolution and frame rate, and I would have a manual way to mark incidents as important so they are stored at full resolution. As the SSD fills up, the older video would start to get transcoded to a lower resolution - perhaps 720p - and moved to another set of archival hard drives. When parked at home, it would use my wi-fi to upload the video to my storage server. At that point I would transcode again to a lower resolution such as 480p, and then possibly upload it to Amazon Glacier or just keep it on my server. When archiving, I would also keep the Full HD version of any videos marked as Important.
This will take a lot of coding effort - but I need to find appropriate cameras first! Can you guys provide any recommendations?
The cameras I want just need to be able to connect to my car PC somehow - they don't need GPS, they don't need their own SD card storage, they don't need any kind of screen at all. However, I want them to be able to capture at 1080p full HD, 30-60 FPS. I might want to mount the front one in the grille to prevent things hanging from my windshield, however this may not be optimal. If I did that, it would have to be waterproof.
I'm not sure of the best options for side viewing - perhaps some cameras mounted to the side-view mirrors. I found a few interesting systems targeted at law enforcement organizations, but they are very expensive!
For recording, I plan to have a large SSD in my car PC. While driving, it would record at full resolution and frame rate, and I would have a manual way to mark incidents as important so they are stored at full resolution. As the SSD fills up, the older video would start to get transcoded to a lower resolution - perhaps 720p - and moved to another set of archival hard drives. When parked at home, it would use my wi-fi to upload the video to my storage server. At that point I would transcode again to a lower resolution such as 480p, and then possibly upload it to Amazon Glacier or just keep it on my server. When archiving, I would also keep the Full HD version of any videos marked as Important.
This will take a lot of coding effort - but I need to find appropriate cameras first! Can you guys provide any recommendations?
