bicc 0 Posted December 27, 2014 Hi all. I have a ptz camera in my business premises. The views 3 areas. The entrance, diesel tanks area and and the general yard area. I set the camera presets to look at these areas and apply a cruise path. I have it recording for 10 hours every day. However it uses 10gb of space in my harddrive. Is there a way of compressing this file to a smaller file size?? Is 1gb/per hour seem to be alot?? I am new to this so any help would be apreciated. Thanks a million guys Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the toss 0 Posted December 28, 2014 Compression will not help you very much & you have now discovered one of the main drawbacks of PTZ cameras on tour. When your camera is moving from pre-set to pre-set EVERY pixel in the picture is changing constantly @ 30 fps & this is the cause of your large HDD usage. Normally only a small portion of your picture changes at any given time & it is only this info that is recorded. ( a simplistic explaination ) If you could get it to blank out the video signal between pre-sets you could save heaps of space. I don't know if any ptz cameras have that function or why not. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
