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Well, you must be using v7.....I still have 6.05 When viewing in quad playback, none of those options are available. I just went looking through the v7 manual, and I see what you're talking about now...there are tic boxes for the various cameras and more options than what I get when trying to backup. Oh well....maybe it's time to upgrade!!

Can this be done w/ ver 6 ? Are you doing this from within ViewLog? Cause I don't see any options to save the AVI as quad...

Just FYI, I can say that this isn't entirely true. I have an old MSI mainboard (Model KM2M ver 1.0) that uses a VIA chipset. I bought a GEO GV-800 card several months ago, couldn't get it working with this unit to save my life. Within a minute or two of the program starting, the system would INSTANTLY reboot without warning. I never could figure it out. Put the card in an Intel chipset MB....I had no problems! Anyway, I refused to accept defeat, tried just about everything, and when I was about ready to give up, I decided to go into the BIOS and selected "LOAD OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS" from the menu....and...voila! Been running rock solid for the past month. No reboots, no problems. This was on a totally clean fresh install of XP w/ SP-2 AMD 2200 512MB RAM Nvidia GE-Force MX-440 video 180GB HD Anyone with a Geo card and a MB w/ a via chipset....give this a try. I'm curious to see if I'm the only one.

Hey Rory, how the hell did you do that? I'm running a GV-800 and can't for the life of me figure out how you saved that video with 4 cams....care to elaborate?

YES! I am glad someone has confirmed this. I use digiflower cards and I would LOVE to be able to either bypass or get rid of this limit altogether for use on a 100MB/s LAN, but I can't seem to do it! Anyone know of a mfr that allows for a way of setting these limits manually??

I know this thread is pretty old, and it's been bumped just recently but I have to give my $0.02. My experience with this company has been nothing but excellent. Scott has bent over backwards to make sure I'm happy with his products. Recently he let me purchase one of the "k-card" series cards for evaluation. I ended up going with a digiflower instead, and he had no problem in letting me return it for a full refund. He seems to be very knowledgable about the products he sells, however I wouldn't expect him to know EVERY single card inside and out...especially at the rate that these manufacturers are constantly updating their software and making changes to their features. I will say that his website is pretty lame, and the products he offers are not necessarily updated very often, but I have yet to find significantly cheaper prices on cards anywhere with the support he offers. The original poster didn't mention the hardware he was having questions about, and what specifically the problem he was having with them. Therefore, it's hard for me to fully understand where he's coming from...

I'd like to bump this thread because I still have yet to find a solution. After testing for months and months, I have come to the conclusion that you just can't "search" using Digiflower's cyon client or web-based client. Fast Forwarding and Rewinding just isnt' an option, whether you're over a LAN or over the internet. I have asked several people out there that are familiar with Digiflower's stuff if they have any problems. Everyone I've spoken to so far are basically saying that it's just me having the problems. I built a system around a DF-2000 (16/120 card) and am now using a DF-900 (4/30 card) and both of them exibit the same problems. The ONLY way I can seem to fast-forward or rewind video (anthing faster than realtime) is to either: 1. Map the D: (video) drive over the network to my remote box, then use the "Cyon_M Searcher" software to FF\REW through the video or 2. Do it at the local DVR box itself I know it's not the computer, chip, chipset, router, LAN, internet connection..any of that. It's obvious that if it works when mapping a drive and using the serarcher s/w (as in option #1 above) and it works just fine, then there's something in the software on the server side that's curtailing the throughput for transmission to the other end. Maybe there's a registry key setting to change? I don't know. If I had the username/password of digiflower's tech support page maybe I could read a little more. But I'm stuck. If anyone has a DF server up and running that would be willing for me to demo it I would appreciate an email or a PM. I have yet to see one that's set up right so I have something to compare it to. Changing the settings under "Control User Access" tab and "Transmission Speed and Quality Image" does nothing other than adjust the compression of the LIVE image--it does nothing for re-compressing video that's already stored when I search.

Actually, I get the same results with SP-1. The first suggestion deals with the new SP-2 firewall, but that's been disabled. The second deals with the max number of TCP connections at one time, and when connected remotely I'm only at 1 (or 2 if you consider the web GUI) so I'm nowhere near the limit. The third suggestion deals with the loopback not responding, and that's not a problem, either. After dicking around with it for several hours last night, I found that I can get realtime (or close to realtime) when I stick with 720X480 MPEG4+ using a quality of 7 or 8. I then set it up to use the same codec as recording. Depending on how much motion is in the scene is what slows it down. If there's very little, it will come across in realtime. If there is a car driving by that takes up 50% or more of the frame, then it will slow down quite a bit. The only thing I can think of is that the software itself is not designed to use much bandwidth, as I can only get it as high as 12.5% of the allocated 100MB/s in task manager. I would be curious if anyone else using digi boards could tell me how much bandwidth they're using when trying to do something intensive like FF or REW remotely.

First, I want to thank you all for the suggestions...good info here. I was able to increase speed (some) after realizing that the DVR was plugged into an older 10base-T hub (duh!) After taking care of that problem, it got a little better. My u/l speedtest results from PCPitstop was 722kb/s, but again, I'm disgruntled over the LAN speeds, not necessarily the internet speeds. (BTW, yes I do have a 768kb/s U/L cap...check it http://www.cox.com/HighSpeedInternet/Compare.asp It's the 'premier' tier that I'm on.) Both network cards were set to autonegotiate and were doing 100MB/s, however I changed their settings to force 100MB/s full duplex just in case. Didn't seem to make any improvements. I went ahead and disabled QOS as well, again didn't do much good. Transferring a file using windows explorer from the client to the server yields about 85% network load (normal) This is running on XP Pro SP-2, firewalls disabled. Installed from a clean OS install using a bootable XP pro install disc w/ SP-2 slipstreamed in there. No other s/w programs are on the system other than drivers, etc. CPU load never goes over 25% normally. The software is Version: 5.304 (2004.08.03) I'm still playing wiwth it but still can't get more than 12% network load according to the Task Manager's network monitor. No matter what codec I record in, using 720x480 video I still can't quite get realtime 30fps looking at one camera, OR reviewing video from one camera using search. It's like you're watching it in slo-mo. (using the remote client) Reviewing it locally on the server is realtime, no problem. Can any of you guys fast forward or rewind using the client over a LAN? Thanks again for everyone's input. I hope to get this thing working soon as my customer is coming Monday to pick it up! I've got a K-Card on order and I'm going to test it out next. Some people swear by them, and I'm wondering if it's any better than Digi.

Yes. I tried changing it every way I know how. The only speed difference I noticed was that I got the best speed with live video using the "same as recording codec" option. But this did nothing for searching archived video. I did this already. This was where I got the 0.25% of my bandwidth being in use when testing on my local LAN. By the way, my LAN only consists of 3 computers and a router. I can transfer files back and forth using windows explorer at a rate which takes up 85-90% of the bandwidth, so I know that is not an issue... Any other suggestions?

New to the Digiflower stuff....got a 2400 board recently (16/120 card) and I've noticed that when connecting remotely there's relatively slow response. The server box has a 768kb/s upload speed cap using a cable modem. I would expect the response to be a little slow using this connection. However, using either the web client OR the client software itself on another computer connected via the LAN, I get the same slow framerate on playing back archived video. Looking within the task manager in XP both on the server and the client side, less that .25% of the 100Mbs bandwidth is in use when playing, searching, or viewing live video. This dosen't seem right. I've tried tweaking all the settings I know of under the 'control user access' tab to change the speed of the transmission rate. Nothing seems to help. For reference, the video I'm searching is 30fps 320X240 MPEG4+ set at a quality of about 7. The framerate I'm seeing remotely is < 3fps. Any suggestions on how to make this faster?

digi-flower stuff maybe?

Thanks for your help. It's a DF board.