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I was about to post about the non-standard pinouts too, but wasn't 100% sure, since I have used this cables many times on different DVR cards, but I have never tried mixing the cables, and using the ones from one card on another one... But yeah, I would tell you to contact the dealer of your DVR card.

I have mounted 4ch DVRs on rally cars. On that kind of installations, you have to keep several things in mind, some of them already stated on this thread. First, weight. If possible, you do NOT want to add 5Kg of weight to the car for a few cameras, the lighter, the better. Then, shakiness. Depending on the kind of car, normal HD is not an option. You can use SSD HD, you can use SD memory cards which are very cheap, etc, but not a normal hard drive. The lightest one I have mounted weights 0.7Kg, it can record 4 channels A/V and uses SD cards which can easily be replaced. It gets power from ignition, you can easily set it up so it will just turn on when the car starts. The MDVR powers the cameras, so you run wires for power and video from the DVR, to every place where you will mount a camera.

katie1985, The two first links you are posting is not what he is asking for. Those are monitor cables for a computer (VGA conector on your computer, to 5 BNC connectors on your monitor, red green blue v-sync and h-sync). What he is asking for as I understand it, is a cable for some 8ch DVR cards; they have a VGA like connector on one side, and 8 BNC connectors on the other side, for connecting up to 8 cameras. Note that, while the connector on the card is VGA like, I would never call it VGA since it is not the computer video output, but it is the same kind of connector. I think the correct name would be more like D-sub 15. I would say he is looking for one of this cables (see second picture): (ooops, can't post links since I do not have 5 posts, too bad)

I would never install any Antivirus or any other unneeded software on a DVR (dedicated) computer if its network connection is correctly configured, that is, if only the needed ports for the DVR program are open from outside. To (3) I would say (b) or ©, you can actually have the firewall disabled if only the needed ports are open, but you might as well enable it and allow only the needed ports on it, so it will also be safe to infected computers on the local network.