flyboysmb

Their software does playback the recorded files, but the software will only run on a computer that has their DVR card installed. I just wanted to bring the protable hard drive hove & watch it on my laptop (which does not have a PCI DVR card installed).

The first thing the "player" does (the DRV software is what I think you are saying) is look for the DVR card, if the DVR card is not present, the software will not start.

Of course, I am looking for sharware....

I am using the Swann PC-DVR card & am happy with it for my needs (for now). On one of my systems, I write my video data on a USB 2.0 hard drive so I can bring it home to view. The problem is, the Swann software will not run unless it detects a DVR card. I don't have or need a DVR card on the computer I am trying to review the video data, so I can not use their playback software. I am looking for a simple multi camera playback software that will allow me to watch all the camera data at the same time (mulit-screeen, zoom, playback speed, bla bla bla). The data is stored in unique directories for each camera (CAM1, CAM2,etc) I can use Windows media player to view one camera at a time, but that is no good! Any thoughts? Thanks