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Are you trying that from inside, or from outside your own network? Use the following web site to check if your ports are open: http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/

I do not have any Dahud NVR to test now, but I am quite sure it must support it too. I guess you are using VGA and HDMI outputs for the two monitors?

What is NVR7208-8P, is that a Hikvision NVR? If it is, it surely does.

How are you accessing the camera? The text on the screenshot surely does not seem to be the text from a Hik camera. Are you using it with BlueIris? Is BlueIris geting the video feed from the camera with RTSP? If so, I am quite sure that could be the issue. What firmware does the camera have?

First understand what you want to do. - Camera acts as FTP client, and uploads by FTP to a FTP server somewhere else. You do need an FTP server, on your computer, or anywhere else (remote). - Camera acts as FTP server. You connect to the camera with a FTP client, so you can download files from the camera. I am sure there must be a way to do this with Hikvision cameras that come with memory card, so you can download all the files from the memory card easily without accessing the camera. Now, on your first post you say: "Does it mean I could get a hi-res picture directly from the cam and 25 frames per second?". That is not actually correct with FTP, you do not connect to the camera with FTP to do that, but the camera connects to a FTP server and uploads the screenshots (the same way that you connected to your host once to upload your web page). Filezilla offers both a FTP client and FTP server. Good luck!

http://www.hikvisioneurope.com/portal/index.php?dir=Product%20Firmware/Recorder/DS-76xxNI-SE%2076xxNI-V%28VP%29/

You set up DDNS on the DVR, or the router; you do not need to do so in both, and it doesn't matter if they match or not. Yes; $25 a year gives you 30 hosts, which you can use on 30 different places.

Doh. Maybe find the latest firmware for the unit, and update it...

Well, that is weird. I think a reset to defasults should remove all the cameras. Have you tried removing them from the web interface?

I was positive; but not any more http://www.hikvision.com/en/products_show.asp?id=7326 These models used to be 2048x1536@12fps or 1920x1080@25fps, but now they are listed as 2048x1536@20fps or 1920x1080@25fps. Guess somewhere along the way they updated either the hardware or software, I did try one of my cameras, and when I change the resolution from 1920x1080 to 2048x1536, it does lower by itself the frame rate from 25fps to 20fps. Maybe the Hikvision driver on the Sinology software still has info that the cameras are 12fps, and it won't do any more, even if the camera is now able to do it?

Agree. I also get in Europe models with brown or color box, and they are all with CCWR serial. A brown box does not imply it is a chinese market camera, a retail box does not imply it is not.

I would try to give the cameras their original IP addresses, so they do get detected by the NVR. Maybe you had them with the NVR internal POE switch, and now you don't? You changed the network config? I would configure them like they were, and then try to remove them. Or; remove the working cameras (192.168.0.x). And try to edit the non working ones, and modify the IP address from 192.168.254.x to 192.168.0.x.

On the web interface: Restore - Reset all the parameters, except the IP parameters and user information, to the default settings Default - Restore all parameters to default settings. I think the second option should do it. I am quite sure it also can be done from the device.

The DS-2CD2032-I is a 3Mp@12fps camera or 2Mp@25fps camera. It can do 2048x1536@12fps or 1920x1080@25fps. So the 12fps limitation is on the camera specifications, not on your NAS. Even if you are recording at 20fps, I doubt you are geting any more than 12fps from the camera. Recording at 20fps you might be repeating frames and wasting HD storage...

Well... you are the one who purchased a chinese camera to save a bit. It had been hacked already to change it to english, and updating the firmware changed it back to chinese. You can install again a hacked firmware, or install one of the older firmwares that can be used in english even with the chinese cameras. You do not need to use a hex editor at all if you do it the right way. You can recover the camera with TFTP, I am sure it has been explained somewhere in the forum.

"Virtual servers" section is wrong; he is forwarding external ports 37777 and 37778 to internal port 80. Port triggering is not needed at all for accessing a LAn device from WAN.

Delete everything on the "virtual server" section; that is wrong, and you don't need to set it up if you are using DMZ. Delete everything on the "port triggering" section. That is also wrong. You can (and I would) disable UPnP. If you put the DVR IP on the DMZ, there is no need for UPnP. I would disable it on the router and DVR. On the DVR, you don not have DNS configured. You have 1.0.0.0/1.0.0.0. You can use Google's DNs servers, 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 I would also change port 80 to something else (90, 800, etc).

You can use this, so no cutting needs to be done.

Both Hikvision and Dahua DVRs can do that. I am not sure if you can change the delay between switching cameras (the 3 seconds you want).

Use "Hikvision Tools" for that, it includes a "Disk Calculator" tool.

I would return them for a refund. Not nice to have to add a NTSC to PAL adapter in there (which also needs to be powered), plus BNC to RCA adapters. It is easy to assume that a US CCTV company will be carrying NTSC products. I wonder why they would be selling to countries that they use the PAL standard...

They are not interchangeable. The sensor inside the camera is either PAL or NTSC. Contact the supplier to send them back for a replacement. I also do find it quite strange that you would get NTSC cameras from Amazon.co.uk...

If you can run a UTP cable, you can use a USB over UTP extender. Something like this:

Lower the number of cameras. If they have 16 now, why go to 32? They could install like 20 or 24 if that gets the cost under 7K, and make the system grow in the future if/when needed.

The firmware has been changed to 5.1.0 so it will be in english. If you install the 5.1.6 firmware, you will get all the menus in english. There are plenty of threads on the forums about this; you can either hack the camera and manually install 5.1.6 or 5.2.0 firmware in english, or you can patch the camera to make it international, so it will accept any firmwares (check out cbx threads).