cctv_pro_installer

I dont have experience with wave p's softwares, but must video capture softwares have an option that lets you choose what formats and even codecs you would like to have your videos saved on your hard drive. It could be a matter of unchecking *.dvr and choosing *.mpg or *.avi format and choosing a good encoder such as divx if your software have such list. You may even install K Lite codec pack to see if you can make adopt ether9808 record from one of k-lite supported codecs. This is only general information as to I have never seen the ether9808 software or any of wave-p's softwares. I cant really comment on it on its specifics. You may have to wait until a member here that uses the same software as you helps you out in the specifics if my suggestions doesn't help. The card that I am using is using the Digigue software, this software records in *.avi format by default and can be read by any player after installing the standard DivX codec. My DVD mastering software takes it very fine when ever I need to mater a DVD Movie compilation of evidences into a playable DVD disc. I posted this as a side note for your consideration in case if you have trouble with the Ether software you are using, anyways, I hope you are able to resolve it without you having to do further investment into more cards/softwares, etc. Good luck.

soundy, I tried renaming the file extension to every video format I could possibly think of and it wouldn't play like that. If it were that easy, then it wouldn't take 40 minutes to just convert a 5 minute proprietary clip, it would just be a question of changing a file extension. I even tried to use a diferent software, but my beloved manufacturer had "locked" that card to his software and thus no other software would not work (according to them), there was not other compatible drivers for it as well, I was just then holding a paperweight. I also took a look at your vendors, so far it looks promising, I liked the sharp quality demo remote access from the 2nd one, just that I hope the price doesn't blow me away from my chair when I contact the vendor! Just like FranciscoNET said, me too wont pay the seller's rent. I am a professional and know better not to get ripped off, but I can't comment yet about your vendors as I haven't called them yet. About proprietary video formats, as long as its not proprietary to the point of my Roxio DVD Creator software not accepting it as a valid format, its fine with me. The minute the software prevents me from creating a real DVD disc or forces me to export videos below real time 1:1 speeds then I woud be complaining. There is a reason why I chose the PC way rather than the standalone DVR way, one is the ease of adding new DVR cards when expanding in the future, and the other is the features the PC way gives me, some of them being better processing speeds (a waiting time of 40 minutes to process a 5 minutes video is not a better speeds), being able to create custom playable DVD's when even the need arises (proprietary doesn't allow that let alone macintosh users being able to see that video) soundy, can you certify that either 3xlogic and video-insight doesn't use proprietary formats (MJPEG is OK, as long as its the real thing, and not a proprietary variation of it that needs the company's player for it to work) -- I would have to assume, and please correct me if I am wrong, that if the video plays back under Windows Media Player (if I have to install a codec first) that I will have no problems using my DVD Creator software to create a standard playable D1 720x480 DVD Disc? or that I can use NERO to create a SVCD compliant playable back CD?? That's what I am looking for.

The card that I have now is a Digivue card, I paid $85 for it and its a 4 Channel. Digivue has the following quality settings: 160x120 and 320x240 and the ultimate one and 320x240 is the one that I am using per each CH. The card that I had before (the ESunStar one) has 720x480 as the highest recording resolution and that's the one I had. For codec, I had the following options: MPEG or H.264, I had first MPEG chosen, then saw what format the software was recording and it was a file ending with .dvr then I changed it to H.264 and again, the file that software was recording was .DVR. My understanding was that regardless what codec I used, the resulting video was going to always end with .DVR I dont know if the software was encrypting the resulting video or if it was recording using a proprietary variation based on the codec I picked to save it as an *.dvr, but that surely did pissed me off. Dont get me wrong, I did enjoy the full D1 resolution I was getting with ESunStar software, man those details were clear crisp! but the only problem was that when I needed to convert 5 minute of video to a format the officers could understand as well as the rest of the world, this damned thing took almost 40 minutes!! Let alone when the officers needed 1+hour(s) of footage. I searched all the menus that came with the ESunStar software and I saw no way that I could disable its propritary madness. Why can't the software record directly to a true H.264 standard or any other popoular formats like DivX, Xvid, MPEG, AVI, etc, etc?? I could then take the 5 minute video, stuff it to Rovio DVD Creator, and within 2 minutes of less have a dvd playable disc created? I HAD to go out, purchase the DIGIVUE card, that records in HALF D1 resolutions only, DOWNGRADE my self from the sharp clear D1 quality, JUST get my a** out of the illogical proprietary world, and that was ONLY when I had the unpleasant encounter with the officer that ALMOST took my DVR with him to have it processed in his station because the ESunStar software wouldn't process the conversion much faster. Before that, I told him that I could give him an executable player that he can run on his computer to play back the *.dvr files, but he said that the lady at the station doesn't want anything executable because it might contain a virus, that the video must be a standard compliant video and that if I cound't produce such videos that my DVR then needed to be handed over for processing to a Digitan/Analog/Digital conversion. But thank goodness the officer did waited the couple of hours for the software to be finished. THAT was my last dealings with proprietarism! If it wasn't because of Digivue, I would have gone back to Time Lapse VCR's because at least when I used to use VCRs I didn't had to spend an eternity to produce a 5 minute video! and I could have duplicated a 24 hour (recording in a T-120 tape) in just 2 hours, thats a 16x speed of duplication. When I wend digital, I was expecting more speeds, better features and enhancement, but with ESunStar, that took me wayyyy back 16 years when you had to wait an eternity to just do about anything! Now you can understand why I get mad when I hear anything that comes close to the term 'proprietary' and I fully share the sentiment of the orignal poster. In Ebay, the seller should state if their DVR cards uses proprietary formats or not, Let them say its PROPRIETARY when its PROPRIETARY or MPEG/DIVX/H.xxx OR XVID when its MPEG/DIVX/H.xxx OR XVID, proprietary variations of MPEG/DIVX/H.xxx OR XVID that can only be understood by their unique executable software doesn't count and I will just complain that the ad wasn't properly described when the product ships and the facts are then understood like many customers are doing lately. I need help LOCATING a seller that sells full D1 DVR card WITHOUT proprietary. If I could have it the DivX, H.2xx, MPG way, then fine, but dont FORCE me into a format that only your "household knows" that I dont want to use. Knowing that converting a 5 minute proprietary video takes over 40 minutes, I dont know why these types of cards are still being sold, WHY are customers letting their faces get slapped by DVR Card Manufacturers with proprietary formats? Is it that they just install their DVR and do nothing, then nothing ever happens that warrants they retrieving their videos? And 2 to 3 years later when they need to retrieve a video is when they finally realize that everything was just being gibberished with some proprietary crap that may need a player that used to be provided by a website which domain just expired and such software is no longer available and that customer is left with nothing? Any sellers out there? Any website I can go to? Any Ebay listings I can check out? I need a qualifying card fast as 320x240 doens't pretty much show things as clear as what D1 used to.

I am in the same bandwagon as FranciscoNET. I also need a PC DVR card that records in full D1 resolution without the use of proprietary formats. I purchased 3 cards on Ebay and all of them came with proprietary formats, and like in this poster's case, the police comes over to request evidences all the time because my area is a really bad area and the last card, even though it was recording at full D1, was proprietary, I think it used a software made by ESunStar. Not only did that software hid all of the video files from me (like if I were some soft of noob) but it recorded everything into a "dvr" file, and when I needed to convert 10 minutes of video it took over an hour. The card that I have now was one that I purchased from a store called JAYSO around my area and has a software called DIGIVUE, it records using the DivX format at 320x240, I hate half D1 resolutions, but at least I get to create my own DVD's with Roxio (same situatio as the original poster) and most omportantly, I dont have to let my officer sit waiting for hours for 30 minutes of videos that he wants! Oh by the way, the last time that I was using the ESunStar DVR Software/card the police officer almost wanted to take my DVR server with him with the charge of being able to extract the evidence much faster than I could. I told him that he was not going to extract the evidences anymore faster than what I could because only this stincky software understand this format and needed to be converted first to AVI! That was an insult to my professionalism almost to watch a police officer take my DVR server with him like if I didn't knew what I was doing all because of a stupid software devices to only record into a format that the entire planet doesn't understand but this software! I want an open format video capable DVR card that records in full D1 resolution. I will double the poster's budjet to up to $400.00 shall a seller appear! Thank you!