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No doubt, thats just silly. Same goes for the storage limits.

Tweak your setting man... Whats your recording config? The framerate is for 640*480 as well! That card has fusion 878a encoders, each good for a solid 30fps in hardware. Your host machine controls how fast it can transcode MPEG2 into X for storage. Geovision has the best recording and multistreaming configuration of any DVR I have ever seen. Most just have a slider 1-10 for compression and what you pick also works for network transmission. If you don't know what you are doing you can config Geovision to use a streaming setting for storage.

Panasonic also has a super dynamic PTZ, should provide most of the performance of the cp484 and still have the PTZ functions you are used to.

Find an instance of MPEG4 being tossed from court due to the technology used to protect the video... EDIT: If you think for just a short period you can't find a way around the VCR continuity tests... Nobody cuts tape anymore.

They have used VCR tapes in court, there is absolutley no protection on those. Also the analog cameras are interlaced so no matter what you do with an analog camera you can't really have a full frame. Few in the court system have the technical knowledge to care about the differences.

I'm pretty sure the good termination and splicing equipment has some internal QC testing. I mean it's impossible to polish something that small using only you eye.

IMHO it wouldn't be worth the $, inspect the version number of the card and check to see if v8 is compatible. If so you get the only upgrade, otherwise if you really want v8 and that card can't it isn't worth the $.

Whoops try again, I was away from my desk.

Turn your ActiveX settings to prompt if unsigned Go to http://www.lowvoltageonline.com/site/modules.php?name=HelpDesk I will VNC in and reset it for you.

The VW-CP484 does not require an illuminator, it will make very goos use of whatever lighting you have. If thats IR then great, if it's star/moonlight great too. Be careful on your lens selection, you want just enough to get it done. The tighter the lens the less light that gets through.

In OK we use duct tape and bailing wire.

What you guys are asking is pointless. 1. There is no LPR embedded DVR. 2. If you must build an LPR application to interface with embedded DVR you will do this with what? Embedded systems have nowhere near the balls to scan and compress video in realtime. Maybe you are okay with a nightly batch job??? Still you would need to develop the embedded solution for that. Basically you won't have a 100% RTOS no matter what you do. Keep in mind most embedded DVRs today aren't RTOS anyway so the stability concerns aren't nearly as valid as they could be. You can make Geovision run as a service. There is no reason for your end user to ever see or interact with the Windows desktop. The LPR data is pumped to an MSACCESS database, you can access the video feeds from ActiveX. The machine can run headless as an appliance, I have many in service for many years that have never "locked up" or "Frozen". I use RDP to do service calls, problems come from HDs and power supplies. Which are basically same:same with the embedded competition. Further you could embed Geovision, still not RTOS though.

Serach up on 2 things. 1. Dynamic DNS, you may require it but if you don't it won't hurt you. 2. Port Forwarding, you will require this. You will need to know the ports an protocols required for your DVR to maintain remote connections.

You can also try the old fashioned way. Fully configure Geovision **Must have auto start monitoring, auto start networking... From command prompt: sc create Geovision binpath= "C:\GV****\GV****.exe" ControlPanel>Administrative Tools>Services Find the Geovision service, right click it and choose properties. Change the Startup Type to "Automatic", move to the Log On tab and allow it to interact with the desktop. Optionally in the recovery tab you can configure what it should do if it senses a problem. I don't do it that way anymore, I just make XP autologin. I can't remember why though.

We jump to legality because 99% are pirate.

Depends on the budget too, the DVR/NVR works as a bridge to the existing data network. Well in mine anyway, that way you can still view assuming you have the authorization from the DVR/NVR. They however cannot directly view a single camera/streamer or it's interface.

If the client software doesn't support DNS then you will need to continue to use ping>s -PRIVACY- o*dvrdns*org. Really thats probably the fastest way to resolve your DNS manually. Looks like a software upgrade is in order.

Ontop of the conduit around the direct burial I would probably send 24VAC to the remote location and then step it down ti 9VDC. You can shoot 24VAC much farther then 9VDC.

You did want this to work didn't you? If you keep buying $150 cameras you'll eventually spend more.

What DVR do you have? If you buy a streamer/IP server and you keep your DVR... Most analog DVRs can't handle IP camera streams, as such you would also need a decoder for EVERY camrea. Add to that you have a 4 channel card, you can't have 5 cameras. It seems to me a hybrid DVR solution and IP cams may be the cheaper alternative. It's not going to be cheaper then analog wireless method, however I prefer wifi for wireless.

QUIT BUYING STUFF!!! Make a plan and then follow it.

If the stores are identical I think you would be foolish to not pay for a professional to design the system. It would be a couple hundred bucks that could save you thousands across 14 much less 140 locations. Even if not identical a professional designer can point you to a system of finding parts in the future based on the desired function. Basically you can learn a lot that way enough to know where you must put $ vs where you can skimp and get by.

In OK these are treated like lifesupport systems, you need a special license to install them and I would suggest a buttload of liability insurance. I won't touch them with a gopher pole!

It seems like VNC that only transmits the Geovision GUI, works pretty well in my opinion.

It goes like this IP cam > Switch (or wifi link) > Network Recorder or Analog cam > Video Streamer > Switch (or wifi link) > Network Recorder You have a balun, it only converts coax to UTP. You can run 4 camera feeds down one Cat5. This has nothing to do with ethernet, it is simply a means of using fewer smaller cables when installing clusters of cameras. You would need more then 4 ports on your DVR.