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They are greyed out at the DVR. That is the only setting that is greyed out. I am logged in as an admin. It doesn't make any difference if I stop recording.

I have two systems with GV1240-16 cards running on Windows 7 with v8.5 software. I access then remotely and all of the video shows as pink. I know disabling directdraw fixes this but when I go to system config, startup "enable directdraw overlay" is ticked and grey so I can't turn it off. This is the same on the other system. How do you disable directdraw on this version? Thanks

Likely you missed the "cloud" part. Since there are angels in the cloud everything just magically happens in ways we just don't understand...

I have a one time need to continuously record ~ 15 minutes from one camera. As a test I went into camera config, rec control and changed the camera from motion to "round the clock". I started recording and only a single few minute clip was recorded. I noticed that in general setting, video record, max video clip you can pick from 1 to 5 minutes. So that seems to trump "round the clock"? Am I missing something totally obvious to do what I want? Any suggestions appreciated.

Say you want to use H.264 encoding instead of the default. As far as I can tell you need to touch the settings for each channel. Is there any way to just change the default or change all at once?

Sure but Win XP is an out of production product. Win7 is out for two years and it works well. It doesn't cost any more than XP did. Hardware is amazingly inexpensive anymore. Storage is a given no matter what you do, RAM is inexpensive and there isn't much difference in motherboard cost and you could take the same motherboard you would use for a lower end system and just use say an i7-2600 for $100 more to make a really powerful system. That CPU has a 95W TDP so it certainly isn't eating lots of power. Lots of older much less capable CPUs used more power than that. I have a recent system I built using 2x 16 channel GV-1240s and I am using the H.264 V2 codec for 8 of the "high use" channels (front door, main entrance etc). With 30 channels in use in a busy store the CPU usage is ~ 10%. I could have used a less capable CPU but wasn't sure so I erred on the high side. There wasn't much difference in price.

Thanks, Thought I tried using the "hand". I tried it earlier today on a system I updated to the 8.5 software and it worked. The other thing I noticed was now there are only two codec options (either Geo Mpeg4 or Geo H.264) . The older system also had a H.264 V2 option. I found this description of the codecs: a. Geo Mpeg 4 – The codec with the largest file size but with the best quality. b. Geo Mpeg 4 ASP – It is about 15% more compressed than Geo Mpeg4. c. Geo H.264 – It is 30% more compressed than Geo Mpeg4. d. Geo H.264 V2 – It is 40% more compressed than Geo Mpeg4. So it looks like they removed the H.264 V2 codec in the 8.5 software.

I submitted 3 requests and a follow email over the course of two weeks and never received a reply. I happened to check yesterday and the chat was up so I asked and got a link and a login.

I need an outdoor IR camera to watch some recycling dumpsters behind a building. The camera needs to be attached to the building which is 90' away from the dumpsters. The only lighting is a dusk to dawn type mercury vapor fixture that is ~ 120' away from the dumpsters (almost behind the camera position). They can't install any additional lighting because it is adjacent to a residential area. This camera looks like it might be a good fit. Any thoughts appreciated. http://www.cnbtec.com/en/html/product/product.php?seqx_prod=1298

Looks like an interesting camera. I am in the US and can't find vendors for it.

Thanks for your suggestions. It seems like a reasonable idea and something to go with if I can't confirm the camera I was looking at is worth the extra cost.

Thanks for the suggestion. There is nothing between the dumpsters and the corner of the building (camera location). There really isn't a good place to put a standard without it interfering with the trucks that service the dumpsters (there are 4, 40 yard dumpsters).

Following up on my own post. Looks like this is a pretty new model that is not widely available so likely no one has tried it. Any suggestions for another model/manufacturer camera is appreciated.

I just read that chapter and it always notes "webcam server". Control center connects to port 5611 for data. I need to do some experimenting to see if bandwidth control affects traffic to control center.

I have a PC running control center in a main office. Most of the DVRs are on the same LAN so bandwidth is not an issue. There is a remote store that has two DVR systems each with a GV1240-16 card running 8.04.1 software on Windows 7. I have one camera from each in the matrix of the control center PC. There is a VPN connecting the remote store. Others have control of it. They think it is using too much bandwidth. I know there is a bandwidth control server in the Geovision software but from what I can find it only applies to the webcam server. Is there any way to control the traffic that is going to the control center PC? Thanks

I have bandwidth control running as a default service and also have the services set to start on Windows startup. Is the bandwidth control service "automagic" or do you know of any way to determine what the service is doing (bandwidth use) or if any tuning can be done using native Geovsion? Or is there something in control center that will tell you the bandwidth a particular camera is using similar to how multiview shows bandwidth?

Forgot about netlimiter, used for something else a long time ago. Thanks for the suggestion.

I have a new install of control center that drives some large flat panels in an office (thanks to whoever gave me the suggestion to use control center, I can't find the prior posts). All of the cameras that control center uses are from DVRs (running either 8.4 or 8.3). Some of the DVRs are at a different location that is connected by a T1. I want to minimize the bandwidth since control center is on 24x7. Lower quality is not a concern since they just want to see a view of the various store frontends looking for lines in the checkouts etc. If they want they can can use multiview from their computers. I installed bandwidth control on a DVR and it only shows the webcam server. Is there any way to control the bandwidth of the video that control center is using from each DVR?