I know i brought this up before and tried the fixes reccommened

customer has 16 cam gv-800 system and when I playback video it appears to drop frames. all cameras are set to smart with a 9 frame per sec limit. I have tried setting the limit higher but still see the problem. The unit is in a parking structrue and it happens even when only a couple of cameras are active. I have checked to make sure no Audio is activated.

DVR meets speck for video card type memory etc.

What is the complete PC Specs?
What PCI port is it in?
Any other PCI or PCI-e Cards?
What OS is it?
Which version Geo software?

I don't have complete speck here will get from work tomorrow

No other pci cards but geo

ver 8.01

Is the pci slot significant?

Will get rest of info tomorrow

xp pro service pack 2

Pci slot makes a dif

make sure its not the first slot

More ram is better :)

I am going on site this week am going to replace AGP video card with one that has 512 gig video memory will move geo card to different slot if it is in slot one system has 1 gig ram

I think mine is in the first pci slot. Does it make a difference? It seems to work fine. Thanks Dave

Make sure you have the smart record feature enabled, this helps a lot.

Make sure you have the smart record feature enabled, this helps a lot.

Can someone please explain why it is not good to have Geo in the first slot? Thanks Dave

I would turn off the smart setting and just crank up all the important cameras to the max.

I had similar problems on some systems until I turned off the smart settings. Not really a fix, but perhaps a work around.

I believe its PCI bus isues???

As the playback comes from the hard drive ; try plugging in a USB hard drive , and change the file path, see if that works
Do you have color + B/W cams. mixed, this can sometimes cause problems, also if you don't have any cameras on No.1

I believe that No. 1 PCI slot is generally used for video card , and mobo. manufactures sometimes make considerations for this, so it can on occasion cause a problem if the GV. card is in there

Video card is AGP (advanced Graphics Processor??)

Or PCI-E, which is not a std PCI connector, so slot 1 has nothing to do with the video card.....

I stand to be corrected..