I'm working on a VMS where it takes approx 30 secs (or more) for the VMS to detect a camera going offline and generate Video Loss Alarm.
However, I believe this timing is more a Windows OS issue than the VMS. My theory is that Windows OS does not mark the TCP channel as closed/lost until after several keep-alives go un-responded and a certain time is elapsed afterwards. To support the theory, if I disable VMS computer's Network Card, Video Loss alarm happens pretty much within 10 sec; because the OS get to know its network capabilities are down before having to wait for keep-alive responses, etc.
Is there a different explanation to above issue? Is it possible to tweak any setting to make VMS generate Video Loss Alarm quicker than 30 secs?