Choppy Video

[shaywood 0]

For some reason my live view of cameras is choppy. Any idea what settings I could change to improve the live view?

 

System:

GV800

ver. 8.3.3

i3core desktop

ASUS 4350 Radeon 512mb

6gb RAM

[rory 0]

The GV800 is max 120fps Live video so with more then 4 cameras it may be a little "choppy". with 16 cameras it WILL be "choppy". You could lower all or some of the cameras to CIF and that may help, but then that also effects the max recording size. If using 720x480, at least drop it down to 640x480.

[shaywood 0]

Thanks for the advice. I'm only running 4 cams on the card. I previously had the card in an older computer and the live view was smooth. Not sure what is going on.

[rory 0]

4 cams it should be real time, or at least look like it.

How is the recording?

Sounds like something else is going on.

What OS is it? How does the Hard Drive sound? How does the system feel, fast or slow, does it ever hang like where the mouse does not move for a second?

 

Take out the Video card and use onboard video if it exists.

The video card does not effect recorded video, but it does need to support Direct Draw Overlay.

[shaywood 0]

Thanks. Recording playback looks exactly like the live video. I did try it with and without the ATI Radeon card - looks the same. I'm running Windows 7.

 

This morning 2 of the 4 pictures are frozen on the GV800 display. They aren't recording either (and no video loss, just a blue screen). Restarted the multicam and all pictures are back.

[rory 0]

32 bit or 64 bit?

Was the old system running Win7 or XP?

Although some have used Win7 without any issues, personally I will use XP over Win7 for a DVR, until XP is no more or I go Linux

[shaywood 0]

This is a brand new system running win 7 64bit. I was previously running this on a different system without problems. Most annoying problem is the pictures freezing becuase I can't tell unless I check the recording and notice the screen is stuck on one or two pictures (I don't get a video loss message).

[rory 0]

There are still some issues with Geovision and 64 bit as you might find around the forum, they just come out with the 64 bit version. Most DVRs have only ever worked on 32 bit. Thats why I was asking what the old one was, 32 or 64 bit?