Tranquilino

The card is not a Real GeoVision card, and the Software is cracked and the drivers are hacked, pretty much what I said. Ofcourse the card itself is not "pirated" in the sense that you and I might otherwise understand it, but it is a "clone" - or cheap Knockoff. In this industry we also call it a "Pirated Card", which encompasses both its being a copy of the original and using cracked software with hacked drivers. Geovision use to get its cards from UDPtech which is strictly a card manufacturer in Korea. I believe they still do but some things have changed on them since I last checked. As I am not privy to the inside workings of either Geovision or UDBtech i cannot elaborate any more then that. Bottom line is the cards are copies of the Geovision cards, they make them out to look like the real thing, but they are far from it. The Driver files are made for these NON Geovision cards but are reconfigured to "appear" as if they are for Geovision, Software is cracked to "work" with those driver files and the card, using older versions of the software. Although these copies and cracked software crash and have all kinds of issues, people buy them, in fact, it is rather genius of the Chinese when you think of it, and they are great sales people. But ofcourse they know they are above any International law also. However most of that is based in Hong Kong. Dont get me wrong, the Chinese do make great products, not all are making cloned cards and cracking software, it is still just a very a small minority. More info: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3301 oh wow I didn't know it was possible to pirate hardware wise, I though piracy was only limited to software. Well, if these chinesse people are creating their own dvr card and hacking the geovision software and drivers to make it work with thier non-geovision dvr cards, they why can't they just develop their own software, or perfectionize any one of those open source projects if they dont want to start from scratch, that way they will have their own products 100% legit and would be in the position to compete with geovision and others, why go thru all this trouble in coppy catting when it seems clear they have the know how to create their own products themselves. Now, I am holding a dvr card with pirated geovision software, is there another software I could try that will work with these cards while reamining 100% legit? I would hate to throw out these cards because the physical cards is not the problem, its the software that was chosen to make it work in this case, as what I have learned so far. I am assuming that these cards are generic and will work with any generic driver, right?

That was not a real geovision card (pirated), so it came with hacked drivers and cracked software, no wonder you had problems. GeoVision has a China division but they do not sell to end users and that Hong Kong place you purchased from was just another outlet selling pirate hardware/software. Just going by the fact that you bought it from Hong Kong, It had a CD with a white label for the drivers (instead of the original CD), and it had paper clipped pages for the manual (instead of a real booklet), that alone tells us it was a clone. Since I was using GeoVision from 3 or so years ago, it always had 720x480 resolution in live and record. Rory, I think you meant "That was not a real geovision software" big difference, the software part I would understand the possibility of being pirated, but the actual physical pci device card? How can something that is hardware be pirated. So I cam make more sense of what I am trying to say let me use the "Pirated Windows" example here, when a person falls victim to software piracy and purchases a computer system pre installed with a pirated version of Windows XP can a person says "Well, since it came with a pirated version of Windows XP, then it must have a pirated mainboard, a pirated hard drive, a pirated video card, etc....." any person that hears that will just start laughing becaues everyone knows that there is no such thing as a pirated mainboard, its a hardware product that is tangible and you get to touch it for real, it has real components, chips, capacitors, resistors, transistors, etc, same applies for the dvr card. This dvr card is real, has real components, real microchips, real capacitors, real resistors, etc, nothing here looks fake or fisherprice types of make belief fake toy items. its as real as it can get, it fits into a pci slot, when the drivers are installed it shows up under device manager, so as real as that it can't get any rear-er. The question here would be how I can get a genuine geovision software for my geovision cards, it looks the people from china either stole the geovision dvr cards and pirated the software as to not require a license key, that way they could afford to see it alot cheaper, in that case I would not mind purchasing a genuine geovision software that can work with my geovision card. So where can I go to obtain the real stable software, I already got the card just missing the real software.

This is incorrect, unless one has a bad system or is using a pirated card. No DVR should ever have a crash/system hang, I would have another look at what kind of systems you are building. Rory, When I was using geovision I got those cards from Ebay, I searched there for "Geovision DVR" and got the cheapest buy it now price I could possibly find for a Geo 4 CH card. The package arried fast from Geovision's Hong Kong Distributing Center. It was basically a PCI device, a small miniCD white labeled "Drivers", and lots of black and white pages paperclipped together labeled "user manual". I instaled everything and it ws working well, just that I had to restart the dvr manually like once every week to prevent hangups, but besides that it was a great product, then I moved on to QX2006 because I wanted 640x480 quality. Tranquilino, I appreciate your suggestion, but the QX2006 software's Display Resolution is NOT the same as the RECORDING Resolution. If you didn't knew that just examine any of its .AVI video files's properties and you will see that all of them are 353x288 resolution. I am looking for full D1 (Display and Recording all in D1). Some DVR card vendors would say "Our cards is D1" but what they wont tell you is that its for Display only, we had to deal with some of those types of cards. Thanks anyways and welcome to the forums! FranciscoNET, You are absolutely right! After examining my videos I found out they were of 352x288 quality when I right clicked them, choosed properties then clicked at summary, there I read it. I can't believe this, all this time I though I was recording at 640x480 and my distributor never told me this. Here is what I dont understand, if the QX2006 software is receiving videos at 640x480 and presenting them at the computer screen at that quality, then why is it not recording at that same quality? Why is there a discrepancy in recording and displaying resolutions?? Is there any body here that uses QX2006 that can help me? Maybe I got my settings wrong somehow?

FranciscoNET, May I recommend to you the QX2006 DVR Cards? They display at a beautiful sharp 640x480 per channel, and its very cheap. I get mines at $33 each 4 CH. As far as the QX2006 software goes its very stable, more stable than GeoVIsion based on my tests. Geovision crashes and hangs the system when the dvr has had a 1 to 2 weeks of uptime, with QX2006 my server has had uptimes in excess of 8 weeks without a crash/system hang. Af far as a list of DVR cards that you can buy I dont have a list, jus the VGA QX2006 recommendation.