Hi all,
I recently bought an Avtech 792PV DVR and I'm having some issues with it.
Some history:
I've had an old IDE 760 model running since 2006 without a fault, remote viewing locally/remote and with eagle eyes has been faultless - on the home network it's pretty much realtime with zero delay in the live network stream using Video Server E. So, we add another camera and need longer record times so as large ide drives are hard to find decide to replace the dvr with a new one.
The 792PV is appealing as it's full D1 and for one reason and another we need to record 24-7 at full frame rate. Here lies the problem, locally the machine is fast, recorded video is much higher quality than the old DVR but remote viewing is rubbish. The frame rate always drops to 1.5 eventually regardless of quality settings and can freeze for long periods. Playing back event recordings works pretty well and all other network functions are pretty responsive. The 'live' video via Video Viewer/Web or Eagle eyes is at least 10 often 30 seconds behind realtime and it stutters so badly that it's useless.
I noticed on here that the WD green drives (had a surveillance one) were no good so have swapped it out to a Seagate SV35 today and it's better but still next to useless.
I've ruled out network by using a cross over cable direct from laptop to DVR, frame rate does rise but the video stutters exactly the same with no speed increase or reduction in delay. Fault is the same on a Core Duo 7000 processor and a quad core i7 machine.
Sooo, am I expecting too much from the new AVtechs given the old one did everything without a problem? Any recommendations on a suitable replacement, only need 4 channels.
Any help appreciated otherwise it's going back
p.s Sorry for the long first post!