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Has anyone got these application to work to view there cameras? I have tried both. Seems XP Pro Remote Desktop doesn't suppoet video overlay, so I tried pcAnywhere 11.5 which i thought supported video overlay and 1024x768 (my DVR card softwere needs to be set at 1024x768) . I can see everything BUT the camera's video. Any suggestion or other remote software? Thanks, Paul

Hello all, I'm looking for a DVR card with software that will lit me edit the PTZ protocol with my own code. Any body know of one? Paul

Hi Rory, Thanks for the reply Here is some info on the camera http://www.camerapad.com/cameras.asp The connection on the back is not s video but an 8-pin video/PTZ control (RS232) and power connection. The problem is not getting the video to work, I have the camera plugged in and with the pico2000 soft ware I can see the video, but can't control the PTZ with this software because PictureTel uses it's own protocol. I can use BDLCam to control the PTZ but the streaming software (WebcamXP) does not recognize the 4-port DVR card because first, it only has 1 chip (Techwell TW6800) that uses port switching and second doesn't use WDM drivers. I think I also need a DVR card with 4 chips that doesn't use port switching and shows up in device manager as 4 separate devices. I have the command set and protocols for the camera's but need to find DVR software that will allow me (or actually someone who knows how to enter it) to edit the PTZ commands. Any suggestion, Paul

Hello Everyone and thanks for the help. I've been looking at DVR cards for a home security system viewable over the web. I was wondering if anyone had some answers to some questions I have. First I'll tell you my plan. I want to use some Picturetel PTZ-1 and 2 PZT-2N (these are teleconferencing cameras) run to a pc with an 4 port DVR card and a 4 port pci serial card (for PTZ control RS232) using BDLCAM to control the camera's and ? software for video steaming. I believe this will work but I will need 4 instances of BDLCAM running at the same time to view all for camera's.( Update: I have got BDLCam working for PTZ control but I am trying to use Webcamxp for streaming the video but can't get it to see my DVR card. The Dvr card has a Techwell TW6000 chip and I think the problem is that it doesn't use WDM drivers? Any thoughts?) What I would like to do is just use the software that comes with the DVR card (some form of Pico2000 I think) for displaying all 4 camera's, streaming and PTZ control. The only problem here is I'm not sure if there is a DVR card software that will do the PictureTel PTZ RS232 control. I have gotten the code some someone at PictureTel but not sure of any DVR software that will let me edit the PTZ data. Has anyone had success with PictureTel PTZ camera's and a DVR card? Anyway just thought I would see if anyone would have a better plan. Thank's for your help, Paul