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Wow, that is one outdated unit. That Falcon is a rebranded Dahua, and it is quite an old model. I would not recommend it. If you want a Dahua, go with it. It should have no problems with ONVIF cameras (at least the ones that follow ONVIF standards, and I am quite sure ACTI does). But I would recommend to get one of the current 5in1 units, where you can use any channel on whatever system you want (analog, CVI, TVI, AHD, or IP camera). I would suggest Dahua XVR5108H (up to 12 IP cameras).

VGA splitter + VGA cables.

Is this last capture actually from your unit?? If you only have a 80Gb hard disk, it is not strange that you can only record 24 hours...

Try VSPlayer for Mac: http://www.hikvision.com/europe/Tools_82.html Or iVMS-4200 for Mac: http://www.hikvision.com/europe/Tools_84.html

Take a look at this: http://images.news.f-secure.com/Web/FSecure/%7B43df9e0d-20a8-404a-86d0-70dcca00b6e5%7D_vulnerabilities-in-foscam-IP-cameras_report.pdf I think there's a saying that goes like "the fool's money makes the travel twice"? You might find yourself sooner or later going again to those 22 locations to install a real security camera.

You can install as many cameras as you want, as long as you have the available bandwidth. You need an IP over coaxial adapter, something like this: http://www.securame.com/extensor-de-ip-por-cable-coaxial-p-2587.html Once you have it in place, you need to test the network link to know what is the sustained bandwidth it can achieve. I have used the one I am linking on several installations, and while it says it can only give you 10Mbps bandwidth, I have tested it up to 80Mbps. It will depend on the coaxial cable quality, length, materials, etc. When you know the bandwidth you can have on that network link, you can know how many cameras and what bitrates you can get. Be conservative. Like if you have a 40Mbps available, do not expect to use 8 cameras at 5Mbps bitrates and have everything work like a charm forever. With those 2 wires on the siamese cable you could power just one camera; and if you want to have more cameras, I would suggest installing a POE switch there, for which you would need 110/220V.

You can't.

You have a buggy firmware. You will need to find a newer firmware. What ports do you have forwarded? Web port, RTSP, and 37777/37778?

No.

3 years until your first post? DS-2CE16D1T-IR are 1080p/2MP, while DS-2CE56C2T-IT1 are 720p/1MP. DS-7208HGHI-F1 is a 1MP unit, it does not record 1080p/2MP. But wait, there is a solution! Somewhere on your DVR menus you have an option to turn on "1080p Lite". That will make your DVR understand the 1080p cameras, while it will record them at just 1MP (960x1080 instead of 1920x1080). You need firmware 3.4.8x to have the 1080p Lite option. ps. You should have asked BEFORE buying, and would have been told to get a 2MP DVR.

What I meant; just connecting something to the HDMI port and goes from the HDMI port to a monitor/TV/whatever, can actually damage the HDMI port. The ones I used were just passive extenders (unpowered; transceptors?) I know you are not using HDMI extenders; I was. And whatever the technical reason might be, I got to damage the HDMI port on two devices. So yes, I do believe that an HDMI cable might damage it too, whatever the technical reason behind is (which I do not know).

I actually had that happen to me a few years ago, with some HDMI over UTP extenders. I fried the HDMI port on two DVRs before figuring out that the extenders were crap. So yes, somehow it can happen.

It would not work. You need analog cameras, or "4 in 1" cameras (cameras that support CVI/TVI/AHD, and can also be switched to analog).

The DVR has only 4 fysical connections but it can handle more IP based cameras at the same time. Then you would need IP cameras, not AHD cameras with baluns.

Your AHD cameras connect to your ADH DVR, not to a network switch.

That will work, but then you will be using analog video, the resolution will be the same as on your current cameras (you will probably get slightly better image quality, but not resolution).

No.

None, your TV does not "understand" CVI/TVI/AHD.

If the NVR supports H265 and the cameras are H264, it will just work in H264. But later you will be able to replace the cameras with H265 capable cameras. If the NVR supports H264 and the cameras are H265, you will have to make sure the cameras are configured in H264, or it will not work (they will probably come by default in H264).

Your substream on iVMS-4200 and your camera are not playing well toguether. When you see the camera big on iVMS-4200 it is using the main stream; when you see it small, it is using the substream. You will have to force it to main stream even when you are seeing it small. You can also check the substream settings on your Bosch camera, maybe they are set to something that iVMS-4200 does not understand.

Why would you waste time replying to a 6 month old spam post?

Your DVR only takes Hikvision and ONVIF protocols, it can not record from an RTSP stream. If the audio on the RTSP stream is good enough for you, you could buy an NVR that does support RTSP and have it recording 24/7. But I would first try out the quality using a client like VLC before buying anything else.

You got it wrong there; in the sense that all the encoding is done on your HDMI to IP converter, and that the DVR has nothing to do here with the quality on the audio. KT&C forgot nothing there, since the DVR is not doing any encoding. All the video and audio encoding is done on the HDMI to IP converter, which then sends is as 0s and 1s over your network, and your DVR just receives the stream and stores it on the hard disk without doing any work on that data. Check your converter to see if you have any options to improve your audio, but if there aren't any, you probably will not be able to do much more.

I am not sure from what computer/SO/browser that screenshot is from; but try with a windows computer with Internet Explorer.

You could use a SSD disk; or you could even use a SD to SATA dapter. But it really doesn't make much sense, unless you are interested on lower power consumption, or a DVR without moving parts. HDDs are so cheap...