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Well I did finally get VLC to stream video from my DVR actually (took alot of reading) ... even setup a flash webpage for it ... but as far as the audio, looks like Skype will do that with auto answer turned on BTW the CPU processing is too much for the VLC video stream, for 1 camera it was maybe 60-80% so imagine more than one. I had to connect with RTSP, and it only pulls down the main stream of D1.

how is this recording when it says NO HDD: http://www.cctvfootage.com/video/Color-Bullet-and-AvTech-DVR;search: Thats my video, it wasn't recording on the DVR at the time. I had the output into a capture card and used Amcap to record the video. Reason for that was to get the best highest quality I could from that particular DVR as the recorded video quality was horrible, and the network video quality was even worse. It wasnt to show the recorded video, but instead to show [closer to] what it would look like on a local monitor. As mentioned, NO HDD means there is no Hard Drive in the DVR, or the DVR software did not find one. BTW, here is the original AVI for that video (54MB) http://www.mediafire.com/?s9c52rn1rxwd029

That would be the Total Pixel number from a high res 480-650TVL camera, in PAL. Effective pixels would be 752x482. This is the normal effective pixels in a 480-650TVL PAL camera. This is higher than D1 so you will still only get D1 resolution at the DVR. Since a low res 380-420TVL camera could be 500x582 effective pixels in PAL, then yes your 480-650TVL will be higher quality.

Ive had my EEE PC for almost 4 years and it uses a cheap SSD. Granted I dont use it every day but it has less writes than newer and faster SSDs and its still working fine.

this is the other one .. left side of video is too dark for anything at all. looks like they walk past the car though. I played with the enhancements alot more but it didnt make any difference. Was there no video of anyone else, maybe closer to 9am? http://tinypic.com/r/wurlow/7

the other 2 are even worse, its just too dark ill check it out though.

Sounds interesting .. any chance of a video demo or screenshots? Or is this at a client? Do they have a software download to demo? At least for the client end. Did you say the mobile app costs $500? Not that it matters to me though as I use desktop OS.

Cant do anything with those videos ... tried to digitally enhance both the video and images of the video and nothing ... sorry just too far away and too dark. oh look, now you have a thermal camera http://tinypic.com/r/2qlv1wy/7

Though remember everything is 3x the price time as it lands here in this country, so what is a cheap camera in the US is now an expensive one here

Im quoting 60 cameras right now, analog .. and yet they want cheaper so its down to CNB domes for outside and cheap color IR domes for inside, and 2x 32 channel Dahua DVRs ... whatever works to get the job.

Dahua DVR for SDI cameras (only 4 channel though) http://www.dahuasecurity.com/product_det.aspx?ID=902&p=cpyzc&p_kind=3&c_kind=262&c_kind2=&c_kind3= 100/120fps@1080P recording, 4 channel HD-SDI (1080P/1080i/720P) video inputs, 4 channel audio inputs, and 4 channel loop outputs. It can support HDMI, VGA, eSATA, USB2.0 and 8 HDDs. 8 SATA ports, 8 HDDs or 6 HDDs + 1 CD/DVD-RW, Up to 24TB. 4 External SATA ports, up to 12TB

You're the kind of customer we dream of having and only comes about once every 2 decades

Sure. Its new though, so eventually it might take off. Im not dissing the product, if its from Sony Im sure it IS great anyway. Just saying, like the Analog Bosch Extreme Cameras, the SDI cameras, Flir cameras ... etc . none of them are considered within most budgets and are for special applications, they all have their place though, well not sure about SDI yet, guess time will tell. Dont get me started on liquor stores though, the bums that hang out at one client of mine LOL .. smoking weed, drinking rum, illegal gambling, begging for money ...and then come the stabbings .... they so cheap though they wont even put a camera outside where the real violence takes place .. heck they never even bought a monitor for their system!

It differs from one location to the next, not all get Spiders in fact out of 15 at one of my clients only 3 get them, I have 2 IR bullets here and neither get them, but as mentioned its all about location. Spray some bug spray around it (or even on the camera), that should deter them until the next rain. The stuff we have here is called Baygon and that can easily last a couple weeks. Spent years spraying Burglar Alarm motion detectors for the same reason, it was a monthly service call, except that was also for ****roaches. Also maybe try some Windex Vinegar, clean the glass with that and also spray all over the camera housing - sometimes vinegar can run the bugs.

If you PM me a webpage to it, or manually locate the activeX and send that as a link for me to download, I can check it out further. Is that a TVT DVR?

Darn. Never had any real issues with PSS and Win7 that compatibility mode didnt fix. Even so Ive loaded PSS without compatibility in the past on some Win7 PCs and it worked. It seems to vary between the versions of Win7 or PCs. What version of PSS is it? Another thing you could try, PSS installs to a directory in Program Files with an (EN) on the end, Vista kept giving me errors because of that. Try either of the following: 1-Copy everything in the PSS path to a new folder, then run PSS from there. 2-Uninstall PSS then reinstall to a path without the (EN). 3-Lastly, worse case scenerio, like #1 copy everything to a new folder but put it in the User Data Apps folder. PSS writes to the xml files in its path. Also check the security settings on the PSS folder, make sure it has full admin rights, need to be able to edit and write to files. On Vista I couldnt even edit the INI files in the PSS path manually. I Had to copy the INI files out of the path to the desktop (user data), edit, then copy back. I didnt have time to go through the whole system and adjust the security.

activeX wont work on the mobile OS nor in Safari. You need to download the smartphone app for your DVR. What is the brand or model of your DVR?

What DVR do you have? Let me know and I might be able to throw something together for that, means more software to add to my site Yeah well with this one, as always the more features you add the more other issues come up .. change one thing it effects a whole lot of other things .. im stuck trying to figure out what is basically a non essential problem even .. just to do with the title of the window but it will take a little while longer .. calling it quits tonight as falling asleep on the PC ... its easier to fix something if you dont keep nodding off

I installed PSS on a SLOW Vista Laptop on Saturday, yeah that was fun. I had to create the devices and tasks manually as it had errors reading my preconfigured files - never had issues on Win 7. And forget it the skins and batch files would not work at all. This was Vista Business, but this laptop had major issues anyway, cant even play music files in media player. Got it all working after a while though. Anyway I highly suggest scrapping that OS for either XP or Win 7. Microsoft must have been drunk when they conceived Vista (probably still a little drunk when they made Win7 also) I actually had less problems setting up software in WINE on a MAC!

Okay so you mean local, I was going the other direction. But regardless, I was talking about cameras that are D1 res but even streaming at CIF and lowest quality it is pushing it, the connections are that bad and thats a $150 a month for a business account here, if they want any kind of good bandwidth its around $1000 a month. With the regular accounts if lucky might be able to stream one compressed MP camera, but not a bunch of them. Remember the entire world doesnt have amazing internet. Just saying.

I use the cheap stuff (and the expensive stuff), clients mostly opt for the cheap stuff. That cheap stuff puts away more criminals in a month then most would in a lifetime. Ive had less problems with cheap stuff than the ultra expensive stuff. Guess stuff just ain all that these days

If you need me to answer that for you then you are in the wrong business.

Guess not ... Anywho ... adding in audio right this second, also drag the window around the screen with the mouse, change quality and audio on the fly using the menu at the top. Also changed the title to show the DDNS name instead of the IP (if using a DDNS name). Will release a revised version once thats all completed. May add in switching the channel number also. Much of the same code im writing can be used in other Dahua apps.

I have clients here that can barely push out 4 D1 cameras on business internet accounts let alone a couple Megapixel Cameras .. just depends on your ISP or how much you can spend on a faster upload speed.