Thomas

You don't really need a ****-ton of processor power on a NAS. Embeded units for small personal LANs might be a bit underpowered for 32+ channels or 16+ megapixel cams but anything intended for enterprise use should have more then enough horsepower.

We've just moved to 2003 or 2008 for all machines.

wondcam sell pen dvr as well, the price is lower. I wouldn't bother. Apparently they are a sleazy enough company to spam our boards.

So what would you call vista? Confusing. There are way too many versions of that damn OS. On the plus side, they didn't repeat the same design mistakes they did with Home/Pro.

For the most part Bots. We also tend to get a lot of flybys from Manufacturers from a certain country.

It depends. MPEG-4 generally uses less disk space at higher frame rates. At lower frame rates you can lose the space advantage. It also tends to have a higher processor cost, but this is becoming much more of a moot point. MJPEG tends to be generate larger files. It does use less processor which can be nice. It's one big advantage is that it's extremely portable. MJPEG codecs tend to be very very easy to mix and match without issue, and almost all of them will play in Windows/Mac/Linux without a special codec. This can be fairly important if your trying to give the video to the police.

Sarcastic? You?? Noooooooooo, never, not at ALL!! You forgot bitter and just plain mean. Also your request may take a little while....WoTLK comes out tonight

A brief history of XP and the NT family. One day MS decides it's going to merge it's server kernel with it's desktop family of products. This was regarded skeptically at first, but in the end turned out to be a good thing. The first birth of this was XP Pro. And it wasn't horrible. And it got better over time. And then the marketing department came along and said "We need a cheaper version." And so they gutted XP Pro and came up with XP Home. So why does this matter? Well they ripped out a lot of code and replaced it with a bunch of fairly hastily written code that did less. One of the major subsystems to get gutted was the networking code. XP Home has a nasty habit about freaking out when you do things like: Push data through the network. Receive data through the network. Speak to the network. Listen to the network. Along with the other chunks of code that were altered, it means that XP Home tends to be dramatically less stable. And for a DVR application, that lower stability isn't worth the $20 savings on the OS. XP Home isn't the base version, it's the crippled version.

I'll check on it and see about your access. In all honesty, I don't really have time to track down state licensing agencies. Particularly since it's not a function of my real life job. I can check posts in my off hours. And you're right. Quality of posts count for quite a bit. Quantity helps too if it's on topic. Spamming the boards, astroturfing or any advertising violation also count very negatively against you. I work for a manufacturer. I do my best to not even hint at crossing the line for advertising. As such, I tend to come down like a ton of bricks on those that do cross the line. Some of you may have noted that I can be more then a bit sarcastic.

Some questions that might help you get better answers: What is your budget? How many cameras are you looking to support?

Why would you use XP Home for a serious application?

Contact the company. If it's available for free they will point you to it. If not, then they can get you to sales.

So you're trying to feed a 16 in, 1 out multiplexer into a DVR card? You won't be able to pull the cameras back out into single streams. You need to use a sixteen port card.

Please see number three.

Why do you think you need this, and what kind of internet connection is at the shop? Do you have an SLA agreement for it?

Dongles aren't a step forward. People used them in the 80's. They stopped being used for reason.

It's a stupid marketing line that's thrown around by ip marketing people. The best part is that you get people who do think that's true. And while some cameras do support to writing to things like SD cards, you get very limited recording options. But the idea of the there being a radical difference between NVR's and DVR's is a fairly false one. You still end up with a machine set aside to just record.

My title is sales support. My job is to make things work. I don't sell to clients, I make sure what sales sells will work and what the customer intends will work. And if your contributions are going to be poorly thought out marketing nonsense, then yes, expect to get called on it.

Yes. You just rename it to NVR. Now you're getting technical. No, I just loathe poorly thought out marketing bull****.

Yes. You just rename it to NVR.

In Japan.

You're most likely screwed. Even if you didn't manage to buy a pirated card, it's not going to help you find the software and drivers that go with it.

The answer to your question about Geovision has been posted here before. But before you get too far down the line of questions, it's not particularly useful bit of information. There are a number of things done by the manufacturers to prevent mixing and matching cards and software.

Did you try contacting them? The camera companies do generally give out protocols with great ease.

I clicked on the wrong post for quoting. I wasn't disagreeing. My apologizes.