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i've been using the email notifications and remote playback and have been basically happy with the system. I get an email, and if it needs attention i login and play the clip. What i notice is that the playback is slow, can I speed this up? I thought it was dowloading the file slowly, but if I play the same file 2x, it's slow each time. Is it possible for me to download more than one clip at a time? I'd like to grab a bunch of clips and download them all to watch, but it only lets me select one at a time. Thanks in advance

i know you can adjust the recoding quality, but I don't want to change that. what I want to do is to be able to retain clips for 120 days of motion detected activity. but for 2 cams i only want to keep 30 days, since they get alot of traffic. I only see recycle setting on the main settings page, not for each individual cam. so i'm assuming that there is no way to change the amount of time to keep for each cam separately.

i have a couple cams that get alot of traffic, and others that get relatively little. I would like to keep 120 days, but the high traffic cams tend to fill up the drive alot faster. is it possible to configure each individual cameras retention setting?

is anyone using any kind of realtime backup? i wanted to keep a copy of the video away from the geo pc in case the pc is stolen or destroyed. i was thinking about setting the video location to a network drive, but i'm worried about performance. what might work is something that would sync 2 folders every few minutes. then the video could be moved in almost realtime.

2k3 doesn't do graphics well. do you have the latest drives for video card? What version of directx? what do you have the settings for direct draw overlay set to? if its enabled, turn it of and restart. try to lower the recording quality and frame rate on all cams check to see if it behaves the same when 2 cameras are plugged into any channels. what is the main page set to display? quad? try switching it to scan or single.

do you have a hardware raid controller or a software one? The best performance/protection blend would be raid 5 which is striping with parity. You need at least 3 disks but can have more. the capacity is the sum of all disks minus 1. so if you have (5) 500gb drives, you get 2TB of usable data. with 3 drives it would be 1tb. a single drive's capacity worth of data is used for the redundancy parity. it is striped across all drives. this means that you can lose only 1 drive at a time, or else your data is lost. the array still functions with 1 drive offline and should autoatically repopulate a swapped drive the performace is better than raid 1, worse than raid 0 but not by much here's some instructions to get it to work on windowsxp (its only included on the server products) most of the new sata raid cards will do this too. http://www.tomshardware.com/2004/11/19/using_windowsxp_to_make_raid_5_happen/index.html

good point about the cpu bandwidth, i hadn't thought of that. i haven't yet needed to try the backup, but i will give it a shot now. sounds like that would be the easiest way.

what i would like to see is an option for creating either a VCD or DVD right from the playback window within geo ... the nero program, for burning cd's and dvds, has a set of custom API's that you can use on your own app to embed burning capabilities... http://www.nero.com/nero7/enu/SDK_API.html I wonder if you would be able to somehow export a list of files you want to burn from geo, then use the nero API to create a DVD with each chapter being a different video clip. it might not work with the split screen, but it may be good enough. you have to have nero installed already though. i had the cops ask me for a dvd that they could play in court, since they already had a tv/dvd player. turned out they didn't need it as the case never went to trial. but since then i've been thinking it would be useful to have something like this ...

i'm trying to configure geo to mail with my gmail acount, but it says that it can't connect to server. i verified that I can ping smtp.gmail.com. the gmail help says that you need to use ssl, but i don't think geo supports that ...

usb is a good idea thanks. you configure geo to use that drive and have nothing on the pc's internal drive?

does anyone know if/how you can change the clock format?

how are you playing back originally? I open the playback with F10, then select a camera and a time and hit play. if it is in quad view, it will play back the clips from other cameras as long as the time overlaps with the first camera i started the playback on. Otherwise I get time gaps on the other cameras. so if cam1 has 1 minute event at 12:00 12:10 and 12:15, it will playback the other cams if they have motion that spans these 3 minutes. If cam 2 has events at 12:00 12:05, 12:10, you wouldn't see the 12:05 clip. You can do an advanced search by date and playback everything in a specific range. that will encompass all motion from all cameras. It puts it all into 1 contiguous clip and you can scroll through it. the instant play feature works like this as well. One thing I don't like about the playback, is the delay between clips where you see "Play" in the top left corner. seems that they could make it playback all clips smoothly, without pausing for this.

nevermind, i figured it out. windows movie maker converted it to wmv

I have a recording done with the geo h.264 codec. i want to convert it to mpeg4. can geo do it?

Its been crashing for me quite alot lately. if i were to use the zoom feature to zoom in on one camera, the switch back to the quad view, all other cameras are stopped. I can't seem to get them to restore the feeds. i tried selecting stop, play, etc... no luck. if i double click one of the stopped feeds, it crashes. running webcam v8.0.2 is there any alternative to live remote viewing? also, i notice that in the quad view, the 4 feeds do not take up the entire screen, there is a border around the video. this is what led me to find the crashing problem, as i played around with the zoom button on the bottom ...

i think your problem is with the video card, it may not be able to display video on 2 monitors at the same time. Try playing back any video file and see if it shows up on both monitors. I have an older ATI card withy dual displays and this is the behavior i notice. You shold find out if the video card can do this what I do is to use on of the other display modes that shows more than 1 camera. the larger image is video and shows up pink, while the smaller screens display video at a lower frame rate.

try getting a network attached storage box that mirrors the server. I have a maxtor shared storage and have it sync up with my dvr server once per day. You could set it up to sync every few minutes if you wanted. it connects via ethernet, so you could put it anywhere you could get a cable. there are wireless adapters you can get as well, but if its capturing alot of video, it might get overloaded.

so my investment in a gv600 and 4 cheapo cameras paid off yesterday when it caught some snapper head in my house. He stole my digital camera and a few checks from my checkbook. The cops come over and i show them the video and they immediately recognize the guy as a local kid who is on probation already. 1 hour later the detectives stop by to tell me that they caught him. i burned a cd with the video file and codec for the cops. now they want to know if i can put it on dvd so that they can play it in court. so does anyone know how I can turn the AVI file into something that will play on a dvd player? Also, is it possible to configure geo to use a standard mpeg codec?

has anyone else noticed a change in the motion detection with 8.0? I have the email alerts setup and before I upgraded, i was getting maybe 3-4 mails a day. now i'm getting around 35-50 msgs. i'm tweaking the motion threshold for email alerts to see if it helps. any1 else noticed this problem?

I think it might be the connection speed. I'm over in southeast asia and the pc is on the us east coast. After I downloaded all the clips to a local dir and used RPB to play them it works ok. It even allows me to adjust the playback speed. i guess i can live with that

ok thanks, i have it setup to run on startup now. the video still paysback slowly, i tried to increase the speed, but it had no effect.

ok, thx for the info. unfortunately i don't have access to the cd, because i am out of the country. I checked and it is not saved on the HD when the system is installed. I tried to download the software 8.0 from the geovision website, but when i put the ip addr of the computer in, it says connection failed. I know that I can connect becasue the webserver is running and I can use that interface. i haven't upgraded to 8.0 yet, still running 7.(05?) Is the remote playback software dependent on the server version? can i download the 7 series somewhere? I tried enabling the web/tcp/multicast servers but not luck. I verified that port 5066 is forwarded properly (behind NAT firewall) So should i upgrade to 8.0 to get this to work? is it relatively seemles upgrade? I don't want to go screwing something up remotely ...

what is rpb client? is that remote playback? if so i've already been using this through the web and i cannot dload more than 1 video at a time

I can get a good deal on a PAL camera, would I be able to integrate this into my existing geovision system that uses NTSC cams?

looking for 1 or 2 entry level ptz cameras for a home security system using a gv600. can anyone recommend some decent ones that won't break the bank? I think that just pan/tilt might work too. also need to get another BNC input card for the gv600, so someone who sells both would be good ...