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They will need to be logged on as an Admin, or right click run as admin. Also they may need to restart the computer and try to play it again. What OS are you having these problems with?

Is ripping DVDs legal in North America?

8.3 take ages to start anyway(much longer than 8.12 and earlier), so I imagine 8.4 will also even more, then the OS is much heavier now so, even longer. Developers these days are developing for super computers.

http://english.people.com.cn/200603/...24_253155.html Island prison tries to bring out best in inmates The website reads like an advertisement for a holiday home. "Is Bastoy the place for you?" it asks next to photographs of a sunset sparkling off the tranquil waters of the Oslo fjord and horses pulling sleighs over packed snow. This wooded island could be if you are a rapist, a murderer, a drug trafficker or have accepted a large bribe. "We try to take a cross-section of the country's prison population, not just the nice criminals," said Oyvind Alnaes, governor of the minimum security prison on Bastoy Island about 75 kilometres south of the Norwegian capital. Inmates have included Norway's most notorious serial killer, Arnfinn Nesset, convicted of murdering 22 elderly people when he was manager of a nursing home in the 1970s. He was freed for good behaviour after serving two-thirds of a 21-year sentence. "A lot of people in Norway say that we treat them (the prisoners) too well because they should be punished. But this is the biggest mistake we have been making since the 1600s. Taking this line makes people bad," Alnaes said. "You have to believe people are born good." The 2.6-square kilometre Bastoy island offers its 115 "residents" cross-country skiing, tennis and horse-riding, but before the inmates can slope off to practise their serve or head to the beach for a swim, there is work to do on the farm. "We want to become the first ecological prison in the world," Alnaes said. "It's about giving the inmates responsibility (and) trust, and teaching them respect." Alnaes, who wears jeans and t-shirts to work and is known to the inmates as Oyvind, says this model of open prison is the future. In 1997, he gave Bastoy Prison a new slogan: "An arena of the development of responsibility." Escape Looking after the island's environment, he says, will nurture this sense of responsibility in the prisoners. "Ecological thinking is about taking responsibility for nature, the future and how your grandchildren grow up," he said. Only a handful of cars are used by prison staff on the island and along with the ferry, their engines will be converted to biofuel. The prison's six horses do most of the work, pulling carts driven by the prisoners, waste from the prison is used to generate power while oil heaters are being converted to wood. The governor's development of responsibility goes further. "The usual thing is that prisons are all about security," he said. "On the island, inmates work with knives and saws and axes. They need to to do the work. And if an inmates increases his responsibility, you have to give him trust." Norway has one of the lowest incarceration rates in the world but the justice system does receive some criticism, notably for lengthy pre-trial detentions and cramped holding cells at police stations. Rather than watching and guarding, the 69 prison employees at Bastoy work alongside the inmates until it is time to go home and from 3 pm every day only five remain on the island. The onus is on the prisoners not to escape. There have been few attempts, when friends have come over in a boat during the night to pick up a prisoner, but Alnaes says making a break for it is not a smart move. One of the island's beaches is open to the public and is crowded in the summer with day-trippers. It is the only part of the island the prisoners are banned from.

Cheap 1/4" CMOS, will provide a terrible image. Digital Wireless?? What is it GSM??

No I doubt it, Ive used the CNB IR domes, that style, and they have the rubber ring that pushes tight against the dome cover.

Yes you can buy a Wireless Bridge to connect to the router.

regsvr32 filename.dll or use the full path if you are not doing it within the system32 folder. So copy it to the system32 folder then enter this into the run box (or search on Win7) regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\IESHIMS.DLL this registers the DLL file on your system and then if the class exists in that DLL, it can now be found and no more error. Although I have none of those files on my XP installation.

Should have no problem finding 7200rpm IDE drives. And they should be around the same price as SATA

I normally use 1.5 or 2A anyway. Actually we use a 1.5A to run 4x 300ma (max) budget cameras, though If I had a choice it would be 2A.

20A or 2A? 2A (2000ma) would be more than enough for a single camera and would work fine. In fact 1A should power that fine and be within its max current draw. You can buy the plug in power supplies from almost anywhere these days.

The option is under Advance, System, "CLEAR HDD"

Its probably not designed to move the cameras. these are PTZ cameras?

The rubber is supposed to touch right up against the dome cover. Makes it a pain when you have to adjust the camera to get it back on right. Maybe look at Turret IR domes instead.

Goto the Program Files, Internet explorer Folder, see if they are there. If so, the copy them to the Windows System32 folder and regsvr32 them both. If they arent in the IE folder, then copy them from Vista as long as both are 32 bit OS.

So open source software does not have updates? Bugs? Fixes? Most people use open source software for one reason, cause its free.

actually im a programmer.

One of those gentleman types who lets others do his cutting eh? no i only use plastic forks!

I still have plenty 80GB SATA drives in the field, including my own right here.

No they are not. I havent used a knife in at least a decade.

I cant say, but if you can winrar the main EXE (not the setup, the actual cctv exe) then upload it somewhere I can check the dependencies for you and all you would then need to do is a simple system search for the files to see if they exist. Tinyupload.com is one upload site that is simple to use.

4 CIF, D1, pretty much the same, there can be 8 missing pixels on either side anyway, which accounts for that 16 pixel difference. Its considered D1 Cropped, or 4 CIF. - they call it D1 (marketing?). I record in 640x480 on my Geovision DVRs anyway, which is fine and saves alot of space. Ok so for specs pertaining to this DVR, lets call it D1. The Dahua will record 7fps (perhaps 6fps PAL) D1 on each channel. If its a 16 channel it will do D1 30fps on channels 1 and 9 - but the remainder will be CIF. If you want D1 30fps (or 25fps PAL) on each channel they have another model for that which costs more. Ok now that is straight, for the channel you are experiencing the bad image, what is the encoding set to? If this is indeed a Dahua DVR, what model is it from this link: http://www.dahuasecurity.com/product.aspx?p=cpyzc&p_kind=3&c_kind=262&c_kind3= Or is it one of these? I have no experience with these models but should be similar. http://www.dahuasecurity.com/product.aspx?p=cpyzc&p_kind=3&c_kind=175 Next, no idea on the firmware that Adata provides, but you need to go into the menu and grab us the firmware version, then can go from there. Doubtful its a firmware issue though. Sounds more like a settings issue. Later today I can help more, perhaps PM me the IP to it with Admin rights (user and pass) so I can login and check the settings. Otherwise, can you post some images from it? Easiest way is to connect over the network using the PSS software and then click "snapshot" and then upload that to tinypic.com and post the link here. If you can save a short video (playback, download AVI) and upload that to tinyupload.com, even better. What type of hard drive is being used? How are you playing it back, local on the DVR or over the network? Anyway let me know. Im NOT Dahua tech support (LOL) but maybe I can help. Otherwise Dahua has a message board on their site for support, and their tech guy "Ivan" has emailed me back in the past regarding questions I had.

I only use WD drives and 7200rpm, stay clear from Greens, Blues are okay and all we get down here, have tons of them in the field, Black is better and what we normally suggest for DVRs, the WD AV drives suck (they claim made for video) and are actually another green, better off with the Blues over the AV one. Anyway, I stick to WD as they work for me, and they are all they really sell down here anyway, Im not picky though More importantly though is use a Voltage Regulator, if not doesnt matter if you have the best HDD in the world, it will eventually fail. Even of you have good electric like North America does, when it fails then you might ask yourself, wonder if ... brownouts and spikes can happen anywhere. Plugging a DVR into a high voltage socket without some kind of Voltage Regulator, to me thats like drinking poison.

Maybe its Win7 home and Vista is Premium or something? The basic versions from at least Vista and on were missing alot of things that were even included in XP, but in the premium versions I think it contained those dependencies. The problem is finding out what is missing. You could use a good old program from MS called Depends, can take time though and still might be another issue, but basically go through every file the main EXE depends on, and make sure it is on the system - if not, will need to locate a version of it that would work in Win7, should be able to just copy it from Vista in most cases. When they made the installer for the "SuperDVR" they probably had XP in mind and relied on what is typically installed in XP by default - when Vista came along that messed us right up! So class does not exist could be looking for an external dependency file which contains the class, or the new updated dependency for Win7 is missing a class that was in either Vista or XP's version of the file. OR the program is just giving an error for some other reason, but if it works in Vista should work in Win7 as far as that goes. Also maybe just create a new Admin user and try it logged into that account?

The thing is, Open source software also has the same issues mentioned above. In fact as for backdoors and exploits, I would be more apt to trust something that is not open to every tom, dick and harry. Just because you have say 10 guys working on some code, doesnt mean they know everything, there will always be someone else that knows more and who could come in and exploit it .. and now they have the code, they dont even have to 2nd guess. If open source, Id think its best to at least keep the code among a private group.