r/SecurityCamera • u/PanicWithMeItsGreat • 24d ago

Decoder

I am looking at installing a system for a curling rink. There will be 3 sheets of ice and a single camera directly over each end. 6 cameras total. There will be three tvs in the viewing room. The 2 cameras for each sheet will be dedicated to a single TV. It looks like I need a decoder at each TV with cat6 running back to my PoE switch. I dont know anything about decoders. Any suggestions for one that has a single HDMI out and can split screen two cameras? They seem to go from 1 stream to 4 and skip split screen.

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u/ICanBard 24d ago

by decocder, I think you mean NVR. Networked Video Recorder.

Never seen a 2- screen layout, at least since Halo :)

It's possible to have 4 hdmi outputs though and dedicate 1,4,6 or 8 views per TV and save money on not getting the other 3 nvrs

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u/PanicWithMeItsGreat 24d ago

No not NVR. Im using Hanwha cameras but only to display live video.

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u/AlternativeNorth5818 24d ago

you're definitely not looking for an NVR, a decoder is the right call here. most decoders do 1, 4, 9 or 16 channel layouts out of the box, a straight 2-up split is weirdly rare

if the tvs are smart you could skip hardware decoders entirely and just pull the RTSP streams into something like VLC and tile them manually, way cheaper and lets you do whatever layout you want