Bert.Twildge

Hi I have analogue CCTV cameras connected to an Avtech KP-679 DVR. The system is working fine. I would like to be able to take a still image from one of the cameras when an external event occurs. I believe in earlier versions of the Avtech software that you could configure a still picture to be emailed out when an event occurs. On my PVR's software version, 1017-1005-1004-1005, I can only generate a link that can be emailed out when an event occurs. This email contains a link which then allows streaming of video to a remote device. Unfortunately I do not have the option of streaming video in my environment, I would like a still image attached to the email instead. I've emailed AVtech to see if the earlier functionality can be restored but they have yet to respond. Do you know a way that I can achieve what I want? I have a Dazzle DVD Creator Platinum and a PC-TV video input card as well. I have a PC running permanently too but I can't see a way of triggering a still image capture when an event occurs. Could I achieve what I require with either of the above cards? If I can obtain a still image I can then write a script to create an email, the problem I have is obtaining the captured image initially. Thanks

Hi Thanks for your reply. I have installed a PCIe Matrox video card in the PC and I've disabled the internal Intel card. The new graphics card works fine with other apps but when I start the DVR software I recieve the same error from the DVR software, "the dvr system only use general display mode please update your display cards or driver". I've removed the drivers for the old Video card as well, but this hasn't helped. The PC i'm using is 4 years old and has a 2.8GHz P4 in it, not a Celeron, though you can fit the Celeron chip to it if you wish. If I power the PC up, RDP to it and then start the DVR software I do not get the "the dvr system only use general display mode please update your display cards or driver" message, but I can't see any video inputs on the screen. Does anyone have any other ideas?

Hi Thanks for your reply. I don't have another PC with PCI slots to try the card in I'm afraid. Having two faulty CCTV cards is unlikely, I think the Dell box is the issue. I am trying to borrow a PCI video card to put in the Dell to see if this resolves the issue. I bought the GX520 to build as a CCTV server and so I'm reluctant to just buy a different pc. It is a shame that PCs are so integrated these days, in days of old I had plenty of cards about to swap bits around to fault find! Thanks

Hi I have a Dell GX520 tower with an Intel 82945G integrated video card running a clean install of 32bit XP Pro, SP3. The PC has the latest Dell drivers on and works well. The PC has 1TB of hard disk and 4Gb of RAM and is up to date with MS patches. Aaprt from the drivers and the cctv software there is nothing else installed on the PC, nor are there any other cards in the PC either. I want to use the PC as a composite video PAL CCTV video recorder. I bought a new PCI 32ch video input card from inesun, the item can be seen here: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/32Ch-Video-8Ch-Audio-input-H-264-CCTV-PCI-DVR-Card-/160505852652?pt=UK_Computing_Computer_Components_Graphics_Video_TV_Cards_TW&hash=item255ee4f2ec I installed the card with no errors but I could not get a CCTV image to display from any video input. I never saw any errors from Windows. All my cameras are PAL and work fine if I send their output to a TV directly. After dealing with the very helpful manufacturer they said, in the end, that I should return the card back to them as it wouldn't work. I then bought a new 8 channel cctv input card from eBay as shown below: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180588552933 I rebuilt the Dell PC as above and installed the new card. When I start the CCTV software, which is a called HK_DVR, I receive an error saying that "the dvr system only use general display mode please update your display cards or driver". I have spoken to the vendor of the card and they say they have sold many of these cards without any problems. The video input card shows up in device manager as 8 of "Phillips 7134 video card". I've tried both Dell and Intel website video drivers, changing video resolutions, changing the performance mode but nothing will make the new card work so far. I've also tried different PAL inputs from VCRs etc in to the video card but the result is the same. I can set the card to take NTSC or PAL inputs, which I've set to PAL, but this makes no difference. Has anyone else had issues with the Intel 845G graphics card or do you have any ideas of what else I can try to make the cctv input card work before I return it? I assume the issue is with my graphics card. I do not have another PC that I can try the cctv card in, nor do I have another video card I can try in the Dell to see if the issue is related to the video card. I'd really like to get CCTV working but this is turning in to a headache! Thanks