Sparkysdog

Many thanks for the reply spotmom I'll have a look at that, it seems strange as the NVR is supposed to support 8 x 12MP cameras and I'm only running 4 x 8MP cameras. The system seems stable for a while then throws a wobbly for no reason. I'll look at backing off the bit rate and see how they go. Did you figure this out mate? I had the same problem. 4K nvr. 4x 5mp cams. On split screen you cant view all 4cams at 5mp. Only 1 was working at 5mp in split screen the rest was substream and very poor. Long story short. Only options I had was 1st option: I had to set recording at 1080p in order to view all 4 in split screen at 1080p. And will record in 1080p (being this option I am wasting the extra 3mp so should of just bought 4x 2mp cams instead) 2nd option: set recording at 4K, be able to view all 4 in split screen but it will be in substream (very poor) but it will record in 5mp. (This option isn’t good for us because if we are sit here looking at the monitor it looks blurry like my old old 720p system was twice as good! What annoys me is if you want a 4K system. 4x 4K cams and you have a 4K monitor. You would think you can view all 4 cams in split screen at 4K and record at 4K. But that’s not the way it works you only have them 2 options view all 4 in 1080p, record in 1080p. Wasting the rest of the mp’s. Or record in 4K but viewing on monitor in very poor substream Hi, yes I may have resolved the issue (touch wood) I lowered the bitrate on two of the less important cameras and all seems to be OK so far. I did this about two weeks ago, previously the system would have stalled within a week. I'm running 4 x 8MP cameras recording at 4K in H.264, full frame, the bitrates are set as follows 1st 8192 2nd 4096 3rd 4096 4th 1024 I'm recording in 4k but only viewing live output at 1080p as I've split the hdmi output to view it on two screens in different parts of the house, I've got to keep it at 1080p as one of the screens won't support anything higher. Cheers

Many thanks for the reply spotmom I'll have a look at that, it seems strange as the NVR is supposed to support 8 x 12MP cameras and I'm only running 4 x 8MP cameras. The system seems stable for a while then throws a wobbly for no reason. I'll look at backing off the bit rate and see how they go.

Hi all, I’m after a bit of advice regarding my new Hikvision system. The system is made of the following: DS-7608NI-I2/8P-NVR-DS-7608NI-I2/8P 2 x 3TB WD Purple. 1 x DS-2CD2185FWD-I-4MM 1 x DS-2CD2185FWD-I-2.8MM 2 x DS-2CD2785FWD-IZS This is a replacement for my pervious Hikvision DS-7716NI-E4/16P that had four 2/3 MP IP cameras connected to it. I had this system running without a problem for a couple of years. We’ve had a few incidents during the night recently, so I decided it’s time for higher res cameras and recorder. Following the swap out I had some problems however they seemed to resolve themselves and the system has been running ok for a couple of weeks. Today the old problem has reoccurred; I’ll try and explain as best as I can. All four cameras are showing as being connected to the NVR and the NVR is running the latest software V4.1.10 Build 171107 When viewing the cameras using a monitor only one/two of the cameras are showing with main stream selected, when I switch to sub stream they are all showing. I can view the cameras using my android phone. I’ve looked back over the last 24 hours recording and it seems the system has randomly stopped recording on one or two channels. When I turned the monitor on this morning one of the cameras was showing only part of the view and another had the time frozen. I’m at a bit of a loss to know the cause, have any of you experienced the same problem, I’m wondering if it’s a hardware problem with the NVR. Thanks